Landform Legends
🌊 A trench underwater is like a _____ on land.
Canyon
🧭 What tool on a map shows N, S, E, W?
Compass Rose
🧊 Igneous rocks form when what cools and hardens?
Lava or magma
🌾 What is the top layer of soil called?
Topsoil
🌐 Earth’s plates float on the…?
Mantle
⛰ What do we call an underwater mountain chain?
Ridge
🗺 Which map shows roads, cities, and stores?
Road Map
🪵 Which rock forms in layers of sediment?
Sedimentary
🍃 What makes soil good for plants?
Humus
⚡ Plates sliding past each other cause…?
Earthquakes
🌴 Hawaii’s volcanoes formed over a hot…?
Hotspot/Weak spot in crust
📏 What does a map scale help you measure?
Distance
🔥 What rock forms from heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
🧊 When glaciers melt, what do they drop?
Rock and soil (deposition)
🏔 Plates colliding can form…?
Mountains
🔥 What rises through cracks to create volcanoes?
Magma
🗝 What does a legend (key) explain?
Symbols on the map
✨ What mineral property means shiny or dull?
Luster
🏔 What landforms can glaciers leave behind?
Valleys
💥 What breaks down rock?
Weathering
🗻 Name two landforms made by volcanoes or plate movement.
Mountains, islands, craters (any two)
🛰 A satellite map shows Earth from where?
From space
🖍 What is it called when a mineral leaves a colored mark in powdered form?
Streak
🥣 Name the three soil layers in order.
Topsoil, Subsoil, Parent Material
🔁 Put in order: Erosion, Deposition, Weathering
1. Weathering
2. Erosion
3. Deposition