The growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a DELTA?
100
The process in which sediments are moved from one place to another.
What is EROSION
100
This is built across a river to hold back the water and it creates a lake or reservoir.
What is A DAM?
100
The height above sea level.
What is ELEVATION?
100
Why do farmers plants crops on a floodplain?
What is IT HAS FERTILE SOIL?
200
The formation of U-Shaped valleys is caused by these.
What is GLACIERS?
200
The process that produces sediments.
What is WEATHERING
200
People do this to prevent erosion on hills around their houses.
What is PLANT VEGETATION?
200
Why do people plant plants on a hillside that doesn't already have plants on it?
What is TO PREVENT EROSION?
200
Smaller rivers that join a larger river.
What is a TRIBUTARY
300
As sediments flow down the river carried by the water, they eventually settle with the larger earth particles settling first, then the lighter earth materials settling next. This process is called...
What is DEPOSITION?
300
In your stream table experiments you found two ways to make erosion happen faster. Those ways were...
What is TO CREATE A SLOPE OR TO MAKE A FLOOD (MORE WATER) RUN DOWN THE STREAM TABLE?
300
The Hawaiian islands were created by...
What is VOLCANOS?
300
Maps that show the natural features of the land by showing how high the land is above sea level.
What is TOPOGRAPHIC MAP?
300
What are the three main layers of the Earth?
What is the CRUST, MANTLE AND CORE?
400
Put these in order from LARGEST PARTICLE to SMALLEST PARTICLE...
silt, clay, sand
What is SAND, SILT, CLAY?
400
This imaginary line runs through the Rocky Mountains from Canada down into Mexico. At this line, rivers either flow east to the Mississippi River or west to other drainage basins. This imaginary line is known as the...
What is THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE?
400
The source of a river (where it begins) is also known as...
What is HEADWATERS?
400
It is believed that Earth was once one big "supercontinent" rather than 7 separate continents. This "supercontinent" was called...
What is PANGEA?
400
Floodplains are found ...
What is ALONG THE SIDES OF A RIVER.
500
Three things that might happen to cause a sudden change in a landform are...
What is HURRICANE, VOLCANO, OR EARTHQUAKE.
500
Volcanoes are located at plate boundaries around the Pacific plate. What is this area called?
What is THE RING OF FIRE?
500
Three types of volcanoes are...
What is SHIELD, CINDER CONE AND COMPOSITE?
500
Rocks that are formed by large amounts of heat and pressure.
What is METAMORPHIC ROCKS?
500
The downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity.