Landforms
Slow Changes on Land
Fast Changes on Land
Landforms Vocabulary
Potpourri
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The scientific term for a feature of earth's surface.
What is a landform?
100
The process that slowly crumbles, cracks, and breaks rocks.
What is weathering?
100
The largest and most powerful storms that are accompanied by strong winds and heavy rains.
What are hurricanes?
100
The highest landform.
What are mountains?
100
Shelves that farmers cut into the sides of hills to hold rainwater and soil in place.
What are terraces?
200
United States location where most of the food is grown.
What is the Great Plains?
200
The slow process by which weathered materials are carried away and moved from place to place.
What is erosion?
200
A small and powerful windstorm that moves over land and looks like a giant funnel.
What is a tornado?
200
A body of water with land all around it.
What is a lake?
200
Hurricane winds move in this pattern at this speed.
What are circular and 125 kilometers/78 miles per hour?
300
The landform's name that means "table" in Spanish.
What are mesas?
300
A huge mass of moving ice that moves rocks and other materials in its path.
What is a glacier?
300
A sudden movement in the rocks that make up earth's crust cause this.
What is an earthquake?
300
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
300
The two differences between mountains and hills.
What are shorter and rounder?
400
The river that empties into the Gulf of Mexico and splits the United States into eastern and western halves.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
Two specific examples of how weathering can occur.
What are rushing waters, strong winds, blowing sand, plant roots, temperature changes, freezing water, chemicals, etc.?
400
The four items that can be forced out of a volcano during an eruption.
What are melted rock, gases, rock pieces, and dust?
400
Large bodies of salt water that cover 3/4 of earth's surface.
What are oceans?
400
Three types of water features found in Michigan.
What are rivers, lakes, and bays?
500
The names of the five Great Lakes.
What are Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario?
500
Examples of three ways people change the earth's surface.
What are digging holes, cutting forests, draining wetlands, roads, etc.?
500
Name for the Great Plains during the 1930s when strong winds blew humongous dust storms across the west.
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
Low land between hills and mountains.
What are valleys?
500
Three types of landforms found in Michigan.
What are hills, valleys, and sand dunes?
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