vocab 4

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