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Feature
Bay (MODEL 1)
Promontory
Definition
Indent into land occupied by water
Land projects into sea
Island
Land surrounded by sea
hanging glacier
Spit
Sand embankment with hooked end
that goes into open ocean
Sand formation built by currents;
often in protected water
A small stream
tarn
Rock pillar on coast isolated by
waves
Steep cliff formed by wave erosion
igneous rock*
Bar
Creek
Stack
Wave cut cliff
Delta
Tombolo
Continental shelf
Continental slope
Submarine
canyon
Alluvium deposited at mouth of river;
triangle-shaped
Sandbar that connects island to
mainland
Shallow water covered margin of
continent
Ocean floor from 100 to 200 fathoms;
steeper slope
Narrow underwater gorge w/steep
slopes
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Feature
Waterfall
valley glacier
horn
hogback
metamorphic
rock*
sedimentary
rock*
dome (M5)
mountain
butte
cap rock*
Granite*
Old volcano (M2)
Volcano made from several lava
flows; lava came through a conduit
Unconformity*
Caldera
Bowl shaped crater made from
collapsed volcanic cone
Streams radiates from summit of
volcano; like spokes on a bike tire
Smaller divisions of larger river or
stream
Alternate layers of ash and lava
Anticline*
Trap*
Dike*
Lava breaks through crater of
volcano
Magma fills vertical crack; narrow
Sill*
Magma fills in parallel to rock layers
outwash plain
(model 6)
Laccolith*
Igneous intrusion that pushes layers
into arch shape; usually flat on
bottom
Subsurface molten rock
drumlin
Pipe or tube through which lava
flows
Molten rock that flows over surface
kame
Break in Earth’s crust where
movement may occur
Slight depression that may form a
temporary lake
Fan shaped deposit of sediment left
at the base of a hill transported by
water
Mountains formed by uplift or fault
movement
a stream present before uplift
occurred
meander
desert basin
A basin located between block
mountains
flood plain
canyon
A narrow gorge eroded by a river
glacial till*
horst
Raised block of land between 2
parallel faults
Glaciated valley cut below tributary
valley which leaves it hanging above
main valley
Long narrow lakes formed by glaciers
synclinal valley
(M7)
folded mountain
Rock debris deposited at furthest
extent of glacier
Deposition of rock debris at the side
of a glacier
Large cracks at the lower end of a
glacier
A cirque perched high on the flank of
a valley
syncline
Radial drainage
Braided stream
Composite
volcano*
Breached crater
Magma*
Conduit*
Lava
Fault* (model 3)
playa
alluvial fan
block Mountains
antecedent
stream
hanging valley
(m4)
finger lakes
terminal moraine
lateral moraine
crevassed area
hanging cirque
natural gas*
Petroleum*
salt dome*
gas well*
esker
kettle lake
Oxbow lake
Peak formed by intersecting cirquespyramid shaped
Sharp ridgeline formed by steeply
dipping strata
Fire formed rock – results from
cooling magma
Formerly igneous or sedimentary
reshaped though heat, pressure, etc.
Rocks formed from accumulated
sediments
Mts formed from uplift – circular in
shape
Flat hill topped with resistant cap
rock
Rock strata that is resistant to
erosion. Crowns buttes and stacks
Coarse-grained igneous rock made of
quartz and feldspar along with other
minerals.
A boundary where horizontal strata
overlays previously folded and eroded
layers.
An upward fold
Hydrocarbons found above petroleum
deposits.
Liquid hydrocarbons
Upward movement of a salt mass
with which oil and gas are frequently
associated
Geologic structure where impervious
rock overlays oil bearing rock
A hole drilled into the earth which
encounters gas
A sandy plain that results from
sediments carried from a melted
glacier.
Elongated hill formed by a glacier
L long ridge of sand and gravel that
was left by a stream flowing beneath
a glacier
A round hill formed by sediments
from a glacier
A lake formed from glacial melt that
remains because it reaches the water
table.
Loop like bends in a stream that
flows through a relatively flat valley
Meander is cut off to form lake
cavern
Cave formed in limestone due to
water erosion
cut off
A channel that cuts across a meander
karst topography
Characterized by sink holes and
sunken land due to underground
limestone deposits that have eroded
A plain that borders a river with
ample deposits of overlying
sediments.
Boulders, pebbles, cobbles, sand etc.
left behind by glacial melt
A valley in a syncline between two
anticlines
Mountains formed from stress
trellis drainage
Lagoon (M8)
salt marsh
dendritic
drainage
estuary
inlet
* - found on side of model
Definition
…just find it
A mass of ice moving slowly down the
valley
A glacier that terminates on a steep
slope
A small lake in a cirque
A rectangular pattern of stream
drainage
Rock layers that have been bent
downward
Shallow body of water separated
from the shore by a bar
Swampy area on tidal flats
Tributaries of streams branch out in
all directions
Shallow mouth of a river that mixes
with salt water at high tide
A narrow opening in a bar through
which the tide ebbs and flows
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1 C4
Feature
Bay (MODEL 1)
Definition
Indent into land occupied by water
Feature
Waterfall
Definition
…just find it
valley glacier
A mass of ice moving slowly down the
valley
A glacier that terminates on a steep
slope
A small lake in a cirque
Alluvium deposited at mouth of river;
triangle-shaped
Sandbar that connects island to
mainland
Shallow water covered margin of
continent
Ocean floor from 100 to 200 fathoms;
steeper slope
Narrow underwater gorge w/steep
slopes
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64
G23
65
E24
66
F24
69
D25
70
C24
74
F27
76
A25
77
A26
78
A27
79
H31
85
D29
88
F29
91
H31
2 D4
Promontory
Land projects into sea
3 F1
Island
Land surrounded by sea
7 E3
Spit
9 F6
Bar
10 F7
Creek
Sand embankment with hooked end
that goes into open ocean
Sand formation built by currents;
often in protected water
A small stream
11 D3
Stack
12 D4
Wave cut cliff
14 C6
Delta
16 A3
Tombolo
17 B1
Continental shelf
18 A1
Continental slope
19 C1
Submarine
canyon
21
G10
Old volcano (M2)
Volcano made from several lava
flows; lava came through a conduit
92
A32
Unconformity*
22 H10
24 F10
26 D8
Caldera
Composite
volcano*
93
A31
94
A31
95
A31
98
A34
Anticline*
28
A10
Bowl shaped crater made from
collapsed volcanic cone
Streams radiates from summit of
volcano; like spokes on a bike tire
Smaller divisions of larger river or
stream
Alternate layers of ash and lava
30
C11
35
A13
36
A14
Breached crater
Sill*
Magma fills in parallel to rock layers
99
A34
101
A31
107
D39
Trap*
Dike*
Lava breaks through crater of
volcano
Magma fills vertical crack; narrow
37
H14
Laccolith*
108
G42
drumlin
38
H14
Magma*
Igneous intrusion that pushes layers
into arch shape; usually flat on
bottom
Subsurface molten rock
109
F39
esker
39
A10
40
A10
Conduit*
Pipe or tube through which lava
flows
Molten rock that flows over surface
110
G38
113
E39
kame
57
A21
43
G20
46
G18
Fault* (model 3)
115
C40
116
B40
123
A38
meander
cavern
Cave formed in limestone due to
water erosion
47
D18
49
C17
block Mountains
Break in Earth’s crust where
movement may occur
Slight depression that may form a
temporary lake
Fan shaped deposit of sediment left
at the base of a hill transported by
water
Mountains formed by uplift or fault
movement
a stream present before uplift
occurred
117
C39
119
A38
cut off
A channel that cuts across a meander
karst topography
50
D21
desert basin
A basin located between block
mountains
122
A40
flood plain
52
G17
55
A16
58
H23
canyon
A narrow gorge eroded by a river
glacial till*
horst
59
G23
60
B22
61
B22
62
E23
63
G24
finger lakes
Raised block of land between 2
parallel faults
Glaciated valley cut below tributary
valley which leaves it hanging above
main valley
Long narrow lakes formed by glaciers
124
H37
130
A47
126/12
9 E44
A44
138
D43
130
H47
146
D54
148
D53
153
G51
151
B51
147
C54
Characterized by sink holes and
sunken land due to underground
limestone deposits that have eroded
A plain that borders a river with
ample deposits of overlying
sediments.
Boulders, pebbles, cobbles, sand etc.
left behind by glacial melt
A valley in a syncline between two
anticlines
Mountains formed from stress
Radial drainage
Braided stream
Lava
playa
alluvial fan
antecedent
stream
hanging valley
(m4)
terminal moraine
lateral moraine
crevassed area
hanging cirque
* - found on side of model
Rock pillar on coast isolated by
waves
Steep cliff formed by wave erosion
Rock debris deposited at furthest
extent of glacier
Deposition of rock debris at the side
of a glacier
Large cracks at the lower end of a
glacier
A cirque perched high on the flank of
a valley
hanging glacier
tarn
horn
hogback
igneous rock*
metamorphic
rock*
sedimentary
rock*
dome (M5)
mountain
butte
cap rock*
Granite*
natural gas*
Petroleum*
salt dome*
gas well*
outwash plain
(model 6)
kettle lake
Oxbow lake
synclinal valley
(M7)
folded mountain
trellis drainage
syncline
Lagoon (M8)
salt marsh
dendritic
drainage
estuary
inlet
Peak formed by intersecting cirquespyramid shaped
Sharp ridgeline formed by steeply
dipping strata
Fire formed rock – results from
cooling magma
Formerly igneous or sedimentary
reshaped though heat, pressure, etc.
Rocks formed from accumulated
sediments
Mts formed from uplift – circular in
shape
Flat hill topped with resistant cap
rock
Rock strata that is resistant to
erosion. Crowns buttes and stacks
Coarse-grained igneous rock made of
quartz and feldspar along with other
minerals.
A boundary where horizontal strata
overlays previously folded and eroded
layers.
An upward fold
Hydrocarbons found above petroleum
deposits.
Liquid hydrocarbons
Upward movement of a salt mass
with which oil and gas are frequently
associated
Geologic structure where impervious
rock overlays oil bearing rock
A hole drilled into the earth which
encounters gas
A sandy plain that results from
sediments carried from a melted
glacier.
Elongated hill formed by a glacier
L long ridge of sand and gravel that
was left by a stream flowing beneath
a glacier
A round hill formed by sediments
from a glacier
A lake formed from glacial melt that
remains because it reaches the water
table.
Loop like bends in a stream that
flows through a relatively flat valley
Meander is cut off to form lake
A rectangular pattern of stream
drainage
Rock layers that have been bent
downward
Shallow body of water separated
from the shore by a bar
Swampy area on tidal flats
Tributaries of streams branch out in
all directions
Shallow mouth of a river that mixes
with salt water at high tide
A narrow opening in a bar through
which the tide ebbs and flows