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Wild Card
100
This occurs when materials drop out of wind and water.
What is deposition?
100
Landforms made by alpine glaciers.
What are arete, cirque, horn, and U-shaped valley?
100
This is what identifies the symbols on a topographical map.
What is a legend?
100
This is what GPS stands for.
What is Global Positioning System?
100
This is what is formed before a sea arch.
What is a sea cave?
200
This occurs when a river flowing into an ocean slows down and deposits materials.
What is a delta?
200
Landforms made by continental glaciers.
What are erratics and kettle lakes?
200
A type of map that shows different rock types in an area.
What is a geologic map?
200
A type of image taken from a satellite.
What is an aerial photo?
200
An underwater or exposed ridge of sand.
What is a sandbar?
300
A flat area that is periodically flooded by a river.
What is a floodplain?
300
Large masses of flowing ice typically found near Earth's poles.
What are glaciers?
300
The difference in elevation between two contour lines.
What is contour interval?
300
Gathering and analyzing information about an object from a distance.
What is remote sensing?
300
A thick deposit of fine-grain, windblown sediment.
What is loess?
400
The two main factors that affect how quickly a coastline erodes.
What are currents and waves?
400
A type of slow mass movement.
What is creep?
400
The thicker line on a topographic map that appears once every five lines.
What is an index contour?
400
This is what GIS stands for.
What is Geographic Information System?
400
The shape and size of land features on Earth's surface.
What is topography?
500
This is when water travels almost parallel to a shore.
What is a longshore current?
500
The three major types of rapid mass movement.
What are rockfall, mudflow, and landslide.
500
The difference between the highest and lowest points on a map.
What is relief?
500
Scientists use the past to study this.
What is changes to land features?
500
Material moved by a glacier.
What is glacial drift?