Mountains & Hills
What landform is a low area between mountains, somethings a river flows through it!
Valley
What is a glacier made of and how is it formed ?
Ice and packed snow.
What is it called when wind carries sand and wears away rocks?
Wind erosion
What breaks rocks into smaller pieces without moving them?
Weathering
What do we call a tall landform made when Earth’s plates push together?
Mountains
What primarily forms a U-shaped valley?
Glaciers
True or False: Glaciers move quickly like rivers.
FALSE
What landform can fast-moving rivers create?
Canyons
What carries broken pieces of rock, sand, soil to different areas because of wind, water, or ice?
erosion
How are hills different from mountains?
Hills are smaller and not as steep as mountains.
What do we call a flat area of land raised above the land around it?
Plateau
What do glaciers do as they move?
Carve valleys and move rocks
What natural event can push up land to form hills or mountains?
Earthquakes
How does a river help form a valley?
By eroding the edges
What shape of valley do glaciers leave behind?
U-Shaped valley
Over time, what process can wear mountains down into hills?
Erosion and weathering
What landform forms when magma deep inside the Earth pushes toward the surface but fails to break through the crust.
Plateau