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A system of rivers and streams that drains an area like the Colorado Plateau.
Drainage basin
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Symbol a color, shape or texture used to repesent something else on a map, such as a building, road,or landform
Symbol
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What is a model?a reptesentationof a object,process,or boundry- the limit or border of and area or region
a reptesentationof a object,process,or boundry- the limit or border of and area or region
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a very heavy flow of water, which is greater than a normal flow of water and goes over the streams normal channel
flood
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A _______ is a low area between higher areas through which a river or stream often flows
valley
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What are rapids?
Rapids are apart of a river channel and where the water moves very rapidly over the obstacles. Such as large boulders!
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IN MOVIES, PIRATES USES MAPS TO FIND TREASURE. WHO MAKES THE MAPS?
A cartographer
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What is a peak
a peak is the highest point of a mountain
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What is a Levee
an embankment along a stream that protects land from flooding; levees can be natural or constructed dam- a construction or wall across a river that holds back the water flowing through the river, creating a reservoir or lake
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What is a ridge
a narrow area high land between land between two valleys
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DOUBLE JEPORDY What is a meander? What are Sediments?
a meander is a curve or loop in a channel Sediments are eroroded earth materials that have been deposited
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DOUBLE JEPORDY What are contour lines? What is contour interval?
Contour lines is a line on a topographic map that connects points of equal elevation. Contour interval is the difference in elevation between contour lines.
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what is a plateau?
a large nearly level area that has been lifted above the surrounding areaWhat
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Floodplain area around a riven is covered by water flowing over the riverbank
Floodplain
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DOUBLE JEPORDY What is the bottom of a mountain? What always has water flowing in it?
a base Perennial stream
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What has water flowing in it a certain time in the year?
interminttent stream
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DOUBLE JEPERDY What is a topographic map? What is a bar scale?
uses contour lines to show the shape and elevation of lands surface a ruler line on topographic map that shows the scale representativeDOUBLE
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What is A delta
a fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at a mouth of a stream
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What is a flash flood
rises and falls rapidly with little or no advance warning
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TRIPLE JEPODY What is a slope? What is an alluvial fan? What is a basin?
the angle or slant of a stream channel or land surface. a fan shaped landform of earth matrials at a mouth of stream a low area in which sediments are often deposited
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the course or path the water takes in a stream or river
channel
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DOUBLE JEPORDY What is a key? What is a map?
en explanation of symbols used on a map a drawing of an area, usually as though you were looking straight down on it
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4 TIMES THE JEPORDY What is a Structure? What is a Grid? What is Erosin? What is a landform?
something built by people. a network of vertical and horizontal lines forms a square. wearing away earth materials by water, wind, or ice. a shape or feature of earth's surface, like a delta or canyon.
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4 TIMES What is deposition? What is elevation? What is a profile? What is a benchmark?
The process by which eroded earth materials settle out in another place. a vertical distance, or height, above sea level. a side view or cross-section of a landform. a surveyor's marker usually placed permantlyin the ground at a known position an elevation
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What is a glacier? What is a aerial photograph? What is a scale What is a surveyor What is a fraction
a glacier ia a large mass or body of moving ice an aerial photograph ia a picture of the earths surface taken from an airplane or spacecraft. a scale is the ratio between a measured distance on a map a person who measure an distance a fraction tells the scale of a map as a ratio between distance,elevation,position,and boundaries of land areas