A stream or river that flows into a larger stream of river.
100
What is erosion?
The wearing away of the earth's surface.
100
What landform marks the edge of the interior plains?
The Rocky Mountains
200
What is a peninsula?
Land almost entirely surrounded by water.
200
This is the deepest part of a river or other body of water.
A channel.
200
How does a river erode the land?
The river's currant carries rock, silt and dirt doen the river's channel. Rocks and sand scrape along the bed of the river, and over a very long time begins to carve out a wider path in the rock.
200
In which part of the country is the Great basin located?
The west.
300
What landform covers most of the middle of the country?
Interior Plains.
300
What are the three main parts of a river?
Source, channel, mouth.
300
What major landform did water carve out of rock? How long did it take?
The Grand Canyon. Millions of years.
300
I am in the center of the country. What am I?
The Interior Plains.
400
What mountains cover much of the eastern United States?
The Appalachian Mountains.
400
Most rivers drain into what?
An ocean or other larger body of water.
400
What have people done to control flooding in rivers?
They have built levees and dams to control the water.
400
I am the largest desert in the United States.
The Great Basin
500
What is a canyon?
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
500
Where does water in rivers in the Great Basin go? How is it different from the rest of the countries rivers?
It evaporates, becomes groundwater or becomes small muddy puddles within the basin. Most other rivers drain into large bodies of water.
500
I have shaped many of the earth's features.
Rivers and erosion.
500
I am a body of water located between Florida and Texas.