Different features on the Earth's surface
What are landforms?
Tall pieces of land that stand high above the land around them
What is a mountan?
A low area between two hills or mountains
What is a valley?
A piece of land which is surrounded by water on all sides
What is an island?
True or false: The Sahara is the largest desert in the world
What is false?
Another word for features
What are characteristics?
The highest mountain in the Iberian Peninsula
What is the Mulhacén?
A wide area of flat land
What is a plain?
Rocks formed by volcanoes
What are igneous rocks?
What is an archipelago?
the word meaning straight up-and-down
What is vertical
A group of mountains joined together to form a long line
What is a mountain range?
A feature that defines a desert
What is little or no precipitation?
Similar to mountains but smaller and less steep than mountains
What are hills?
a type of rock made of layers
What are sedimentary rocks?
Going quickly from low to high
What is steep?
What is a cliff?
Large areas of high, flat land. They usually have at least one steep side like a mountain but they have a flat top
What is a Plateau?
What is a metamorphic rock?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
The two places we can find landforms?
What are inland and coastal?
The name of the mountain range that can be seen from Granada
What is the Sierra Nevada?
What is fertile soil?
All rocks are formed of these
What are minerals?
Melted rock that breaks through the Earth's surface
What is lava?