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Landforms
Vocabulary
Water and our Land
Bird's Eye View
Maps
100
A mound, or hill, of wind-blown sand.
What is a dune?
100
Lines that show elevation on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
100
A deep narrow valley eroded by a river.
What is a canyon?
100
The top of a mountain.
What is the peak?
100
A map that shows the shape and elevation of the land.
What is a topographic map?
200
A place between two mountains, normally where a river flows.
What is a valley?
200
A curve in a river or stream.
What is a meander?
200
A fan-shaped deposit at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
A picture taken from a plane or helicopter looking down onto the earth.
What is an aerial photograph?
200
A spot on a map and on the land that has been measured for exact elevation.
What is a bench mark?
300
A nearly level area that has been uplifted.
What is a plateau?
300
The point where a river or stream starts.
What is headwaters?
300
The land that gets covered by water from a stream or river during a flood.
What is flood plain?
300
How far a point is above a fixed level (sea level)?
What is elevation?
300
What is the contour interval of a map that shows: the first contour line is 5,000 ft. and the next line is 6,250 ft. and the next line is 7,500 ft.?
What is 1,250 ft?
400
A long, raised line or strip of land between two valleys.
What is a ridge?
400
An incline or decline of land.
What is slope?
400
The carrying away of loose materials by natural processes.
What is erosion?
400
A fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast moving stream exits a steep canyon and flattens, slows, and spreads.
What is alluvial fan?
400
A way other than a map that shows an exact replication or copy of a landform.
What is a model?
500
Where water naturally comes up and out from the ground underneath. (The water is usually hot.)
What is a spring?
500
A river or stream that instead of flowing directly into the ocean, it joins a larger river or stream.
What is a tributary?
500
When fast-moving water carrying sand and soil slows down and deposits this debris in a new location.
What is deposition?
500
The representation that shows a comparison between a single unit on a map to a set distance on the land.
What is representative fraction?
500
A map that shows the shape and features of the land.
What is a landform map?