Landforms
A natural Feature on Earth's surface
What are landforms
A large area of flat or gently rolling land.
What is a plain?
The difference between the highest and lowest point in an area
What is relief?
The average level of the ocean's surface
What is sea level?
Another name for underwater mountains
What are Seamounts?
Two examples of landforms
What are mountains, plains, valleys, hills, caves, canyons, seamounts, etc.
A flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
Steep, rugged land with big elevation differences
What is "high relief"?
How high or low a place is compared to sea level
An underwater mountain that grows tall enough becomes this
What is a volcanic island?
True or False: All Landforms are above sea level?
What is False
Name a famous Mountain Range
What is... (answers will vary)
Flat or gently rolling land
What is "low relief"?
A city 1,000 feet above sea level has this kind of elevation
What is high elevation?
What do we call a chain of underwater mountains?
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
This type of landform covers most of earth's surface
What are plains?
This forms when Earth's plates push together.
What are Mountains?
Which would have a higher relief: a mountain or a plain?
What is a mountain?
If a mountain peak is 2,000 feet above sea level and a nearby valley is 500 feet above sea level, what is the relief between them?
What is 1,500 feet?
What causes most underwater mountains to form?
What is volcanic activity on the ocean floor?
These are the three main ways landforms can form?
What are the movement of Earth's plates, erosion, and volcanic activity?
This landform is often formed by moving glaciers carving through rock
What is a valley?
Because they are below the surface of the sea, deep ocean trenches have ______ elevation
What is negative?
Name at least one geological process that causes sea level to rise or fall over time
What is melting ice, climate change, or tides
A chain of underwater mountains in the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?