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Geography Terms
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Topography
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Shape land it takes
Topographical region shape of land in area is
similar
Regions of Colorado: plains, mountain parks,
and mountains
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79
/Topographic_map_example.png/220pxTopographic_map_example.png
Plains
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Flat dry lands
Covers eastern 2/5 of the state
Gradually rises to meet the foothills
Main forming regions of the state
Lowest 3,500
Highest6,500
Crops : sugar beets, alfalfa, wheat, and corn
http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/current/ED101fa10/hillaryw/
Images/plains_landscape.jpg
Front Range
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Majority lives in an area known as front
range
Line of cities starting Fort Collins north end
stretching pueblo south end
http://www.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/b/botulis
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Butte
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Hills rises sharply
Has a flat top
Difference between butte and mesa, mesa
has longer sides
Smaller than mesa
Sides are longer than its top
http://www.livingwilderness.com/southwest/camel-butte.jpg
Geography Terms
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Fourteeners
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Mountains that are at least fourteen
thousand feet high above sea level
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2011/051
2/20110512_085917_tr15fourteener.jpg
Continental Divide
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Imaginary line runs through mountains
Not straight
Not always run through the center
Looks like a backwards ‘’s’’
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUireXgKaI4/R4YsclZMmSI/AAAAA
AAADEk/B89djg68lh0/s320/continental+divide.gif
Counties
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States divided into sections
Lines dividing land into states
Counties man-made
Can see on maps
Can’t see on ground
Lines dividing cities/towns also man-made
http://mappery.com/maps/Scotland-CountiesMap.mediumthumb.jpg
Glaciers
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Large bodies of ice/snow
Body of ice/snow move under its own
weight called glacier
Form mostly on mountain valleys
Weather warmer glaciers slowly melt
http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/gulkana/photos/oblique_a
erials/20031005_DCN0265.jpg