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A sheltered basin. A water filled niche along a coast encircled on three sides by land.
What is a cove?
A swift fall of water, caused by a steep descent or a sudden narrowing of a channel.
What is a chute?
A man-made watercourse constructed for navigation, drainage or irrigation. Can connect two bodies of water or two very different waterways.
What is a canal?
What national landmark does the Colorado River flow through?
What is the Grand Canyon?
What function of the Colorado River serve for "The Imperial Valley of California"?
What is irrigation of the desert landscape & making the Salton Sea?
A pile of logs stacked out of the way of immediate logging. Lumberjack term.
What is a cold deck?
A confined flow of water on the surface of the Earth defined by its banks. Can by controlled or artificial.
What is a channel?
A point of land, a ridge or rock, projecting into the sea or other body of water.
What is a cape?
What federal agency made a PR campaign using painting to support the "reclaiming" of arid land in the Southwest?
What is the Bureau of Reclamation?
What commodity was the forefront of the written piece, "A Natural Menace Becomes a National Resource"?
What is The Hoover Dam?
A land that belongs to an entire community, shared by the people of the town.
What is a commons?
Transverse grouping of a plank, caused when a smoothing tool isn't properly aligned.
What is a chattermark?
Mountain streams that descend in stair-step series of short falls and brief pools.
What is a cascade?
What Native American navigation practice involves sharing the meaning of sites generationally through unique names?
What is face-to-place community?
What federal fund was created to support irrigation works in arid lands, giving individuals up to 160 acres of land to irrigate?
A place where streams converge and unite! i.e. the Missouri and the Mississippi have this at the edge of St. Louis
What is a confluence?
Low, scrub vegetation of the dry regions of California and the Southwest. Can be a synonym for brush.
What is chaparral?
A shallow bog (less than an acre in size), usually left behind by a glacier. Also a camping term for a latrine hole...
What is a cat hole?
Who came with the "peace-at-any-cost-policy"? (1879)
Who is Lt George Montague Wheeler?
What plan made a canal from the Colorado River to deliver water to parts of Arizona?
What is the Central Arizona Project (CAP)?
A decorative wishing well that's not filled with water, but is rather surrounded by it. It's used to support dam construction or bridges.
What is a cofferdam?
A boulder that's become lodged between the walls if a chimney, cave or slot canyon, much like a cork jammed into the neck of a bottle.
What is a chockstone?
A chaotic type of river hole. Formed when rocks accumulated at the riverbed drop and causes the surface of the river to churn and explode.
What is a cauldron?
Who said that "irrigation is the magic wand which is to bring about these great changes" (referring to settlement and growth)?
Who is John W. Noble (1893)?
"It seems intended by nature that the Colorado River, along the greater portion of its lonely and majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed...The country could not support a large population."
Who is Joseph Christmas Ives?