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A representation of an object or process
a) Delta
b) Model
c) Cartographer
d) Grid
The limit or border of an area or region
a) Structure
b) Symbol
c) Landform
d) Boundary
Something built by people, such as a building
a) Structure
b) Key
c) Basin
d) Channel
A drawing of an area, usually as though you were looking straight down on it
a) Grid
b) Map
c) Boundary
d) Structure
A person who makes maps
a) Construction Worker
b) Drawer
c) Cartographer
d) Painter
A network of vertical and horizontal lines that form squares
a) Ordered Pair
b) Symbols
c) Legend
d) Grid
A color, shape, or texture used to represent something else on a map
a) Code
b) Symbol
c) Key
d) Model
An explanation of symbols used on a map
a) Index
b) Glossary
c) Grid
d) Legend or Key
A system of rivers and streams that drain an area like the Colorado Plateau
a) Lake
b) Drainage Basin
c) Canyon
d) Delta
The process by which Earth materials are gradually worn away and removed by water, wind, or ice
a) Removal
b) Washing Away
c) Drainage
d) Erosion
A shape or feature of the Earth's surface
a) Landform
b) Depostion
c) Sediment
d) Structure
A V-shaped valley eroded by a river or a stream
a) Valley
b) Meander
c) Canyon
d) Channel
A fan-shaped (triangular) deposit of Earth materials at a mouth of a stream
a) Slope
b) Drainage Basin
c) Boundary
d) Delta
A large, nearly level area that has been lifted above the surrounding area
a) Plateau
b) Delta
c) Erosion
d) Basin
The process by which eroded Earth materials settle out in another place
a) Delta
b) Meander
c) Weathering
d) Deposition
Eroded Earth materials that have been deposited
a) Structure
b) Sediments
c) Model
d) Grid
A low area in which sediments are often deposited
a) Basin
b) Lake
c) Beach
d) Meander
The course or path the water takes in a stream or river
a) Meander
b) Slope
c) Channel
d) Canyon
A curve or loop in a channel
a) Floodplain
b) Boundary
c) Stream
d) Meander
The angle or slant of a stream, channel, or land surface
a) Slope
b) Upstream
c) Basin
d) Delta
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