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Landform Vocabulary
100
An explanation of symbols used on a map.
What is a key?
100
A shape or feature of the earths surface, like a delta or a canyon.
What is a landform?
100
An angle or a slant of a stream channel or land surface.
What is a slope?
100
A side view or cross-section of a landform such as a mountain.
What is the profile?
100
A gently sloping shore next to a body of water, washed away by waves or tides, often covered by sand and pebbles.
What is a beach?
200
The border or limit of an area or region.
What is a boundary?
200
The process that wears away earth materials by water, wind or ice.
What is erosion?
200
A very heavy flow of water, which is greater than the normal flow of water and goes over the stream's normal channel.
What is a flood?
200
A large mass or body of moving ice.
What is a glacier?
200
A nearly level area that has been eroded or where material has been deposited.
What is a plain?
300
A representation of an object or process.
What is a model?
300
A V-shaped valley eroded by a river or stream.
What is a canyon?
300
An embankment or small wall along a stream that protects land from flooding.
What is a levee?
300
The average height of the ocean's surface, zero elevation.
What is sea level?
300
A nearly level area that has been uplifted.
What is a plateau?
400
A network of vertical and horizontal lines that form squares.
What is structure?
400
A system of rivers and streams that drains an area like the Colorado Plateau.
What is a drainage basin?
400
The area around a river that is covered by water flowing over the riverbank during a flood.
What is a floodplain?
400
This uses countour lines to show the shape and elevation of the land's surface.
What is a topographic map?
400
A fan-shaped deposit at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
500
A person who makes a map.
What is a cartographer?
500
Eroded earth materials that have been deposited?
What is sediment?
500
A fan-shaped landform deposited at the end of a steep canyon.
What is an alluvial fan?
500
The difference in elevation between contour lines.
What is a contour interval?
500
A curve or loop in a river.
What is a meander?