What effect do the intermittent (periodically dry) stream channels have on the topography of the region?

Use Figure 23.3 to do the following work and answer the question.



What will be an ideal response?


Contour lines form an upstream-pointing,V-shaped pattern wherever contour lines cross a stream or intermittent stream course

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