Landforms
How do Landforms Change Slowly
How Landforms Change Quickly
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
A natural shape on Earth's surface.
What is a landform
100
Three ways landforms change slowly.
What is weathering, glaciers, and erosion?
100
Three ways landforms change quickly.
What is earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods?
100
Rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
A huge plain that lies in the middle of the U.S. is called this.
What is the Great Plains?
200
Earth's highest landform.
What is a mountain?
200
The way rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
200
The shaking of Earth's surface.
What is earthquake?
200
The movement of weathered rock.
What is erosion?
200
The biggest canyon in the U.S.
What is the Grand Canyon?
300
A low area between higher landforms, such as mountains.
What is a valley?
300
The movement of weathered rock.
What is erosion?
300
An opening in Earth's surface from which lava flows.
What is a volcano?
300
A wide flat area.
What is a plain?
300
Weathering is caused by this.
What is water and wind?
400
A valley with steep sides that have been carved by forces of nature.
What is a canyon?
400
A huge block of moving ice.
What is a glacier?
400
A large amount of water that covers normally dry land.
What is a flood?
400
A small plateau.
What is a mesa?
400
When glaciers melt, they drop the rocks and soil to form this.
What is a hill or (ridge)?
500
A flat area higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
500
A very slow type of erosion.
What is creep?
500
This happens when an area does not get enough land.
What is a drought?
500
A flat-topped rock column.
What is a butte?
500
The Grand Cayon was formed by this river.
What is the Colorado River?
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