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Total questions: 12
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What is an arch?
A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.
A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.
A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.
Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.
What is a mesa?
A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.
A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.
A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.
Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.
What are spheroidal rocks?
A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.
A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.
A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.
Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.
What is a gorge?
A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon
A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.
A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.
A curve or loop in a river or stream.
What is a valley?
A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon
A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.
A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.
A curve or loop in a river or stream.
What is a canyon?
A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon
A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.
A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.
A curve or loop in a river or stream.
What does meander mean?
A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon
A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.
A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.
A curve or loop in a river or stream.
What is an alluvial fan?
An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.
A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.
Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.
A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.
What is a beach?
An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.
A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.
Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.
A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.
What is a floodplain?
An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.
A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.
Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.
A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.
What is a delta?
An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.
A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.
Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.
A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.
What is a butte?
A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.
A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.
A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.
Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.
