Types of Landforms
A tall piece of land, usually with steep sides
What is a mountain?
A very large body of water
What is an ocean?
The Earth is made of different _________.
What are layers?
The Earth's crust and the top part of the mantle are broken into ten large _______ and many smaller ones.
What are plates?
Our planet Earth formed ____________ years ago.
What is 4.5 billion?
A small piece of land with water all around it
What is an island?
A small body of water, with land all around it
What is a lake?
A solid ball made almost entirely of two metals; this layer is hotter than the surface of the Sun
What is the inner core?
What is 8 centimeters (3 inches)?
12,870 kilometers (8,000 miles)
What is the distance from one point on Earth straight through the center and out the other side?
A small mound/bump
What is a hill?
A line of running water that can be curvy
What is a river?
The layer we live on
What is the Earth's crust?
The destruction of land overtime due to power from strong winds
What is wind erosion?
30,000 years
What is how long humans have been around?
Flat, open land
What is a plain?
An area of land that is higher than the land around it, but is flat
What is a plateau?
A thick layer just under the crust, which is hard as rock, but moves as slow as your fingernails grow
What is the mantle?
The destruction of land overtime due to power from strong water
What is water erosion?
They tell us about the history of the Earth because they hold clues to how the Earth is formed and how it's changed over billions of years.
What are rocks/fossils?
A deep valley with very steep, high, sides
What is a canyon!
A body of water that connects two larger bodies of water
What is a channel?
A liquid layer that moves and causes the Earth to act like a giant magnet
What is the outer core?
The theory that Earth's outer shell/mantle is separated into plates that have moved overtime and caused the Earth's surface to change
What is plate tectonics?
Physical features of the Earth that have been created overtime due to many different factors
What are landforms?