Landforms
A flat area with rich soil, often found in valleys.
What is a plain.
covers 3/4 of the earth surface?
What is the Ocean.
What is a canyon?
An earth feature made of rock and dirt.
What is a landform?
Earths highest landform. They have a peak.
What is a mountain?
An landform that is a low area between mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
This water has no salt.
What is fresh water?
The tallest mountain in the world.
What is Mauna Kea?
An area on a landform that slants up.
What is a slope?
Large bodies of flowing ice.
What is a glacier?
A landform that is higher that that land around it and has a rounded top.
What is a hill?
A body of fresh water that flows to the ocean.
What is a river?
A way to compare distance on a map to that is real life.
What is scale?
A copy of something.
What is a model?
Land that is surrounded on all side by water.
What is an island.
A raised part of earths surface that has a flat top.
What is a plateau?
Water that is surrounded on all all sides by land.
What is a lake?
On a map this explains what pictures on the map mean.
What is a key?
A round map that shows the whole world.
What is a globe?
Land that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
Deep valleys with steep sides
What is a canyon?
This occurs when there is a steep drop off in a river.
What is a waterfall?
The highest landform in North America.
What is Denali?
When rivers or wind carry dirt and rock away from a land form.
What is erosion?
An opening in earths crust that allows hot magma and ash to escape from below the earth's surface.
What is a valcano?