Landforms
A piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
The continent where the Amazon Rainforest is located.
What is South America?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A tool used on maps to show directions like north, south, east, and west.
A compass
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
A large, flat area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
The smallest continent by land area.
What is Australia?
The ocean located to the east of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This term refers to the height of land above sea level.
What is elevation?
This U.S. mountain range stretches from Maine to Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
A deep valley with steep sides, often carved by a river.
What is a canyon?
The continent that is home to the Sahara Desert.
What is Africa?
The ocean that touches the west coast of Africa.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
The equator
The large, flat area in the central U.S. known for its farming.
What are the Great Plains?
A landform where a river meets an ocean, is often shaped like a triangle.
What is a delta?
The only continent that is also a country.
What is Australia?
The coldest and most southern ocean.
What is the Artic Ocean?
The highest mountain in Africa
Mount Kilimanjaro
A famous canyon located in Arizona.
The Grand Canyon
These large, slow-moving bodies of ice can carve out valleys as they move.
What are glaciers?
Name the 5 continents
Europe, Africa, America, Australiasia, Antartica
The ocean found between Africa and Australia.
Indian Ocean
How do we call the process through which glaciers move under their own weight?
compression melting
This desert covers parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada.
What is the Mojave Desert?