Rivers On Maps Flashcards
What do contour lines tell us?
The direction a river flows.
What colour are contour lines all over maps?
Orange.
What do contour lines tell us?
Height of the land.
Steepness of the land.
How do they tell us the height of the land?
By the numbers marked on them.
How do they tell us the steepness of the land?
By how close together the lines are .
Height of the land is measured in what?
Metres.
m.
Closer the lines…
Steeper the slope.
River flow from…
Higher contour lines to lower ones.
How do we know when a river is going down hill?
The height values get smaller.
Maps contain evidence for…
River courses and landforms.
Give evidence for a river’s upper course
name 3
Nearby land is high.
River crosses lots of contour lines.
River’s narrow.
If a river crosses lots of contour lines in a short distance what does it mean?
It’s steep.
How do we know if a river is thin?
Thin blue line.
In a river’s upper part the valley floor is…
Narrow.
What does the close contour lines and narrow valley floor mean?
River is a steep-sided v- shaped valley.
