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An area of flat land and is a good location for a city.
What is a PLAIN?
A source of water that flows downhill and runs toward a larger body of water.
What is a RIVER?
A mountain with an opening to a pool of molten rock that is beneath the earth’s surface.
What is a VOLCANO?
A body of freshwater that is surrounded by land.
What is a LAKE?
Large bodies of saltwater that are not surrounded by land.
What is an OCEAN?
Large, dry areas of land that do not get a lot of rain.
What is a DESERT?
When a river drops off suddenly and the water rushes down a steep drop off and lands in the pool of water below.
What is a WATERFALL?
Landforms that are higher than the surrounding land with a rounded top.
What is a HILL?
Higher than the surrounding land with a peak at the top.
What is a MOUNTAIN?
Chambers found in the ground, mountains, or hills.
What is a CAVE?
A narrow valley that is very deep and has steep sides.
What is a CANYON?
The lowest area between two mountains or hills.
What is a VALLEY?
A natural feature on the surface of the earth.
What is a LANDFORM?
Pieces of land surrounded by water.
What is an ISLAND?
When ash and magma escape from a volcano.
What is ERUPTION?
A circular or oval shaped valley that rivers from several mountains flow down into.
What is basin?
The area where a river meets a lake or ocean. Rocks settle into it after being carried down the river.
What is a DELTA?
When little pieces of rock or dirt are eroded away from a landform and are carried by water, ice, or wind to another area and left in a new spot.
What is DEPOSITION?
When wind, ice, or water changes the shape of land.
What is EROSION?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a PENINSULA?
Three forces of nature that cause change to landforms.
What are wind, water, or ice?
The largest cold desert that is covered in snow.
What is Antarctica?
Two things that can escape from a volcano when it erupts.
What are ash and magma?
A large, famous desert that is located in Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The percentage of the earth’s surface that is covered in oceans.
What is 70%?