LANDFORMS VOCABULARY

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Created by:Cindy Jarrett

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Created by: Cindy Jarrett

WHAT WEARS AWAY EARTH MATERIALS BY WATER, WIND, OR ICE? PLANTS AND TREES ALONG THE RIVER BANK HELP PROTECT THE BANK FROM THIS…

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1.Plate2.Gravity3.Erosion4.Depositio

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WHAT IS OFTEN USED TO DESCRIBE THE MEASUREMENT OF THE STEEPNESS, INCLINE, GRADIENT, OR GRADE OF A STRAIGHT LINE? THE HIGHER THE VALUE INDICATES A STEEPER INCLINE.

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WHAT CAUSES WATER TO FLOW FROM HIGHER PLACES TO LOWER PLACES ON THE EARTH AND IN THE STREAM TABLE MODELS?

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1.Meandering Stream

2.Gravity3.Precipitation4.Floodplains

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SAND GRAINS KNOCKING THE PAINT OFF OF BEACH HOUSES, AND A FARMER’S RICH TOPSOIL BEING BLOW AWAY ARE TWO GOOD EXAMPLES OF…

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1.Sand dunes2.Wind Erosion3.Deposition4.Water Erosion

WHAT IS WATER FREEZING AND EXPANDING (ICE) BREAKING ROCKS INTO SOIL ?

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1.Ice Erosion2.Moraines3.Frozen Precipitation

4.Wind Erosion

A LOW AREA BETWEEN HILLS AND MOUNTAINS, WHERE A STREAM OFTEN FLOWS.

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1.Mesa2.River 3.Levee4.Valley

A LAND MASS THAT PROJECTS WELL ABOVE ITS SURROUNDINGS; HIGHER THAN A HILL.

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1.Mesa2.Mountain3.Moraine4.Canyon

THE PROCESS BY WHICH ERODED MATERIALS SETTLE OUT IN ANOTHER PLACE IS CALLED...

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1.Deposition2.Sediment3.Erosion4.Gravity

THE PROCESS OF BREAKING ROCK INTO SOIL, SAND, AND OTHER TINY PIECES IS…

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1.Mass movement

2.Sediment3.Weathering4.Deposition

A FAN SHAPED DEPOSIT OF EARTH MATERIALS AT THE MOUTH OF A STREAM. THESE ARE CREATED BY DEPOSITION.

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1.Stream bed2.Moraine3.Levee4.Delta

THE DOWNHILL MOVEMENT OF ROCK AND SOIL BECAUSE OF GRAVITY IS CALLED…

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1.Tsunami 2.Earthquake3.Delta4.Mass

Movement

A CURVE OR LOOP IN A RIVER OR STREAM, WHERE EROSION ON ONE BANK AND DEPOSITS ON THE OTHER BANK MAKE BIG CURVES IN THE RIVERBED.

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1.Meandering Stream

2.Tributary 3.Stream bed 4.Alluvial Fan

THESE ARE DESIGNED TO HOLD BACK WATER SO THE RIVER WILL NOT FLOOD ITS BANKS. THEY PROVIDE PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO BOAT, SWIM, AND FISH IN THE LAKE. IN SOME CASES THEY CAN PROVIDE ELECTRICITY FOR A TOWN.

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1.Levee2.Dam3.Algae bloom 4.Hydroelectric

plant

THE THIN, OUTER LAYER OF EARTH IS CALLED...

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1.Crust2.Core 3.Mantle4.Magma

THE LAYER OF ROCK BENEATH EARTH’S CRUST.

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1.Crust2.Core3.Mantle4.Magma

THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.

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1.Crust2.Magma3.Mantle4.Core

THE VERTICAL DISTANCE BETWEEN CONTOUR LINES ON THIS TYPE OF MAP IS THE CONTOUR INTERVAL.

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1.Resource Map2.Elevation Map3.Contour

Interval Map4.Political Map

A SECTION OF A STREAM FLOWING INTO A LARGER STREAM; A BRANCH THAT FLOWS INTO THE MAIN STREAM.

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1.Tributary2.Mouth3.Channel 4.Meandering

stream

A V-SHAPED GORGE WITH STEEP SIDES ERODED BY A STREAM. THESE ARE CREATED BY EROSION. ONE OF THE LARGEST AND OLDEST IS LOCATED IN ARIZONA.

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1.Basin2.Plate 3.Canyon4.Mountain

THE SUBSTRATE OF THE STREAM CHANNEL BETWEEN THE ORDINARY HIGH WATER MARKS. THE SUBSTRATE MAY BE BEDROCK OR INORGANIC PARTICLES THAT RANGE IN SIZE.

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1.Deltas 2.Stream bed3.Crust 4.Fossils

A BREAK OR PLACE WHERE PIECES OF EARTH’S CRUST MOVE.

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1. Fault2. Plate 3. Mantle 4. Core

THE RIGID BLOCKS OF CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE BLOCK.

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1.Volcano 2.Pangaea3.Landforms 4.Plates

A HOT, SOFT ROCK FROM EARTH’S LOWER MANTLE.

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1.Sedimentary 2.Magma3.Igneous4.Metamorphic

A MOUNTAIN FORMED BY LAVA AND ASH.

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1.Volcano2.Grand Canyon 3.Alluvial Fan 4.Mesa

A THEORY OF HOW EARTH’S CONTINENTS MOVE OVER IT’S SURFACE.

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1.Theory of Relativity

2.Mass Movement

3.Continental Drift

4.Kinetic Motion

THE REMAINS OR TRACES OF PAST LIFE FOUND IN SEDIMENTARY ROCK.

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1.Fossil2.Pangaea3.Magma4.Obsidian

A SUPER CONTINENT CONTAINING ALL OF EARTH’S LAND AND EXISTED ABOUT 225 MILLION YEARS AGO.

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1.Fossils2.Mantle3.Bedrock4.Pangaea

A PLACE WHERE GROUNDWATER FLOWS TO THE SURFACE AND ISSUES FREELY FROM THE GROUND.

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1.Waterfall2.Natural

Springs3.Tributary 4.Meandering

stream

A MAP THAT INDICATES THE ELEVATION – USING BIRDS EYE VIEW AND CONTOUR LINES.

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1.Elevation Map2.Political Map3.Contour

Interval map4.Resource Map

AN ISOLATED, BROAD, FLAT-TOPPED HILL HAVING AT LEAST ONE STEEP CLIFF.

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1.Volcano2.Mountain 3.Canyon4.Mesa

A FAN-SHAPED DEPOSIT OF EARTH MATERIALS FORMED WHERE A STREAM FLOWS FROM A STEEP SLOPE ONTO FLATTER LAND.

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1.Delta2.Alluvial Fan3.Channel 4.Levee

A HILL OR RIDGE OF WIND-BLOWN SAND.

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1.Sediment2.Deposition 3.Sand dunes4.Mesa

THESE ARE ERODED EARTH MATERIALS THAT HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED.

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1.Magma 2.Sediments3.Deposition 4.Fossils

AN ACCUMULATION OF BOULDERS, STONES, OR OTHER DEBRIS CARRIED AND DEPOSITED BY A GLACIER.

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1.Moraines2.Alluvial fan3.Sediment 4.Canyon

TWO DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THREE DIMENSIONAL SURFACES DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.

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1.Elevation Maps2.Topographic

Maps3.Globe4.Political Maps

A STEEP TO VERTICAL DESCENT OF A STREAM CHANNEL.

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1.Waterfall2.Natural

Springs 3.Channel 4.River

THE COURSE OR PATH THE WATER TAKES IN A STREAM OR RIVER.

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1.Flood plain 2.Stream bed3.Meandering

stream 4.Channel

A LOW AREA IN WHICH SEDIMENTS ARE OFTEN DEPOSITED IS…

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1.Flood plain2.Canyon 3.Basin4.Natural

Springs

AN EMBANKMENT ALONG A STREAM THAT PROTECTS LAND FROM FLOODING; THIS STRUCTURE CAN BE NATURAL OR CONSTRUCTED.

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1.Levee2.Alluvial Fan3.Dam4.Channel

THIS IS WHERE A STREAM ENTERS ANOTHER BODY OF WATER.

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1.Channel 2.Basin 3.Mouth4.Tributary

AN ISOLATED ELEVATION IN THE LAND, USUALLY NO MORE THAN 30 M FROM BASE TO PEAK.

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1.Hill2.Valley3.Mountain4.Mesa

LAND THAT GETS COVERED WITH WATER DURING A FLOOD.

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1.Waterfall 2.Floodplain3.Sand dunes 4.Levee