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Vocabulary
Landforms
Map Making
Map Parts
Fun Stuff
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The view of the Earth's surface looking downward from a height.
What is a "bird's eye view?"
100
A v-shaped valley eroded by a river.
What is a canyon?
100
A person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer?
100
What close contour lines on a map represent.
What is a steep slope?
100
A mountain located in the Cascade Range south of the California-Oregon border.
What is Mount Shasta?
200
The process of wearing away earth materials by wind, water or ice.
What is erosion?
200
Nearly level area that has been eroded or where material has been deposited.
What is a plain?
200
Lines that show elevation on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
200
What countour lines that are far apart on a map represent.
What is a gradual slope?
200
A federal agency that creates topographic maps.
What is the United States Geological Survey (USGS)?
300
The top of a mountain.
What is the peak?
300
High, uplifted area with steep slopes.
What is a mountain?
300
A topographic map shows this.
What is elevation?
300
One shows a flat two dimensional diagram and the other is three dimensional and could include working parts.
What is the difference between a map and a model?
300
The word given to the process that forms canyons.
What is erosion?
400
Where a river enters another body of water.
What is the mouth?
400
A low area between hills and mountains, where a river often flows.
What is a valley?
400
An object or picture that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
400
A person who gathers information about the sizes, shapes, and positions of land features.
What is a surveyor?
400
The word given to the process that forms deltas.
What is deposition?
500
Nearly level area that has been uplifted.
What is a plateau?
500
A famous canyon found in the Southwest United States created by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
500
A ratio, fraction, or graphic ruler that shows the relationship between size on a map and size in the real world.
What is scale?
500
A map that uses contour lines to show the shape and elevation of the land.
What is a topographic map?
500
A national park located in Minnesota that is named for the French fur traders who first explored the area in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What is Voyageurs National Park?