Landform Page

These linkages take you to map images to be used as a guide for studying for the map landform quiz.

Stream Patterns

    annular    like tree rings
    trellis        like the trellis you train plants on
    dendritic    like the branches in a tree
    radial        like the spokes of a wheel
    braided   

Stream landforms

back swamp    A swamp that forms typically near the valley wall of a stream.  there
                        is no typical shape
cutoff                The portion of a stream between the horns of an oxbow lake
meander            A sinuous curve in the course of a stream.
meander scar    After the oxbow lake passes through the meander marsh phase, it
                        continues to fill-in and becomes a meander scar.

Alpine Glaciers

horn                This is the mountain top above the action of the glaciers, so look for a
                       triangular or four sided mountain peak.
cirque              A spoon shaped depression formed where the glacier forms.
tarn                 A lake in a cirque.
arete                Knife edged ridge between two glacially carved valleys.
hanging valley   A smaller glacially carved valley, entering the side of a larger glacially
                        carved valley.  They may but do not have to have a waterfall.  Look
                        at the contour lines and you can tell where they come together that
                        that is the wall of the larger glacially carved valley.
patre nostre lakes    The only group of lakes you have.  They are found in a glacially
                               carved valley.
lateral moraine   Rock and debris that has fallen off the valley wall onto the glacier.
medial moraines    When two glaciers with lateral moraines come together, there
                             lateral moraines join to form a medial moraine, a moraine in the
                             middle of the glacier.

Continental Glaciers

drumlin            Stream-line shaped hill of till.  the contour lines will show one steep
                       side and one gentle side.
esker               A long sinuous ridge of stream deposited material that forms under
                       the ice sheet.
ground moraine    The morainal material deposited under the ice sheet, therefore
                            behind the terminal moraine.
kettle lake        A lake formed in a depression caused by the melting of a chunk of
                        ice that fell off the ice sheet..  Frequently associated with a terminal
                         moraine and outwash plain.
terminal moraine    The morainal material that forms at the terminus of the ice sheet.