vocab 4
Across
- 5. An automated system for capturing, storing, retrieving, analyzing, manipulating, an displaying geographic data
- 7. The boundary between land and a body if water.
- 8. A measure of the slant of a line; the ratio of rise over run
- 10. The massive movement of rock down a steep slope or cliff.
- 13. The rock material carried and deposited by glaciers
- 14. The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sentiment from mine location to another.
- 15. The size and shape of the land surface features of a region, including its relief
- 17. On a map, a darker, heavier contour line that is usually every fifth line and that indicates a change in elevation.
- 20. A long ridge of sand or narrow island that lies parallel to the shore.
- 23. A large mass of ice that exists year-round and moves over land
- 24. A mass of materials deposited in a triangular or fan shape at the mouth of a river or stream.
- 26. The line that connects points of equal elevation on a map
- 28. The flow of a mass of mud or rock and soil mixed with a large amount of water
Down
- 1. A map that shows the surface features of earth
- 2. A low ridge of sand deposited along the shore of a lake or sea
- 3. The process of gathering and analyzing information about an object without physically being in touch with the object
- 4. Fine-grained sediments of quartz, feldspar, hornblende, mica,and clay deposited by the wind.
- 6. A fan-shape mass of material deposited by a stream when the slope oof the land decreases sharply.
- 9. The difference in elevation between one contour line and the next
- 11. The relationship between the measurements on a model, map, or diagram and the actual measurement or distance.
- 12. The process in which material is laid down.
- 13. A network of satellites that orbit earth to measure positions on earth's surface
- 16. A mound of wind-deposited sand that moves as a result of the action of wind
- 18. An aria if the shoreline that is made up of deposited sediment
- 19. The slow downhill movement of weathered rock material
- 21. The water that is beneath earth’s surface.
- 22. The sudden movement of rock and soil down a slope
- 25. An aria along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks.
- 27. The difference between the highest and lowest elevation in a given area; the variations in of land surface.