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FCSDGeo-Landscapes
Glaciers, Oceans, & Landscapes vocabulary (5)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alpine glacier | glacier that forms in high mountains & flows through valleys, giving them a U-shape |
| arid | dry; a climate in which there is little precipitation |
| annular drainage pattern | stream pattern of concentric circles formed on a mountain whose rocks have differing ability to resist weathering |
| continental glacier | a glacier that spreads over a wide geopraphic area |
| dendritic | drainage pattern resembling a tree and its branches |
| drainage pattern | arrangement of adjoining streams as seen from above |
| drumlin | oval-shaped mound of unsorted glacial till |
| erratic | large boulder dropped by a glacier |
| escarpment | steep slope or cliff where resistant layers of rock overlie weaker layers |
| esker | winding ridge of sand & gravel deposited by a stream confined to a tunnel under a glacier |
| Finger Lakes | lakes created in WNY as the advancing ice deeply scoured former N-S river valleys |
| glacial polish | bedrock surface smoothed by the passage of a glacier |
| kame | delta deposited by a stream at the end of a glacier |
| kettle | a depression that may be the result of the melting of a buried block of ice |
| kettle lake | lake formed when a block of glacial ice melts |
| landform | unit of rock of uniform age or composition |
| landscape | general chape of a region on Earth's surface |
| moraine | unsorted mound of sediment depositied directly by moving ice |
| mountain | landscape region characterized be non-horizontal rock structure & great topographical relief; landscape feature usually characterized by nugh elevation & steep slopes |
| outwash plain | layered deposits left by water from a glacier |
| plain | landscape region characterized by horizontal rock structure & low topographic relief |
| plateau | landscape region characterized by horizontal rock structure & high topographic relief; usually a ralatively flat or rolling uplands area deeply cut by stream valleys |
| radial drainage | stream pattern in which streams radiate like spokes of a wheel down the sides of a central mountain such as a volcano |
| relief (topographic) | change in elevation from one place to another |
| topography | shape of the land surface |
| trellis drainage | drainage pattern in which most of the streams occupy parallel valleys; usually develops on folded strata of rocks with differing resistance to erosion |
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