Topographic Maps
Landforms
Weathering and Erosion
Changes to the Earth
Vocabulary
100

A map with curvy lines called contour lines that tell you how tall the mountain is.

What is a topographic map?

100

A large, flat area of land.

What is a plain?

100
Does weathering happen quickly or slowly?
Slowly.
100
True or False: Plant and tree roots don't help keep soil in place.
False.
100

Name the 5 sizes of smaller rocks, in order from largest to smallest.

Pebble, gravel, sand, silt, and clay.

200

The lines on a topographic map are called this.

What are contour lines?

200

A low area between mountains or hills.

What is a valley?

200

What happens when water freezes?

It expands.

200
How does deposition change the earths surface?
It creates new landforms
200
What is a shape on the Earth's surface called?
A landform.
300

The spaces between contour lines are called this.

What are contour intervals?

300
A cone shaped landform with an opening on the Earth's crust.

What is a volcano?

300
What is the force that helps with weathering and erosion?
Gravity
300

Which natural resources are renewable? Which are nonrenewable?

Air, Minerals, Coal, Water , Soil, Natural gas, Animals

Renewable: air, water, soil, animals, and trees

Nonrenewable: minerals, coal, natural gas

300
What is a glacier?
A huge moving sheet of ice.
400

The meaning of contour lines when they are very close together on a map.

What is a steep slope?

400

The tallest type of landform.

What is a mountain?

400
What is weathering?
The breaking apart and changing of rocks.
400
True or False: Wind fences help to keep the sand on a beach from blowing away.
True.
400
What is deposition?
After erosion when sediment and rocks pile up
500
What does it mean contour lines are far apart?
The mountain has a gradual slope
500

A large body of water surrounded by land.

What is a lake?

500
What is erosion?
The carrying away of weathered rocks or soils by water, wind, or other causes.
500
What are three science processes that change landforms?
Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
500
What is a mountain?
A tall pointed ladform that extends high into the sky.
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