Land Features
Water Features
Disasters
Fast Processes
Slow Processes
100
Wide flat land
What is a plain?
100
Large streams of water that flow across land.
What is a river?
100
A huge flow of water over land.
What is a flood?
100
When rock loosens and slides down a hill or mountain.
What is a landslide?
100
The process that crumbles, cracks, and breaks rocks.
What is weathering?
200
Mounds of wind blown sand.
What is a sand dune?
200
A body of water with land all around it.
What is a lake?
200
A small powerful windstorm over land.
What is a tornado?
200
A fire that burns many trees.
What is a forest fire?
200
When weathered material is carried away.
What is erosion?
300
Flat-topped hills or mountains.
What is a mesa?
300
Very large body of salt water that covers about 3/4 of the Earth's surface.
What is an ocean?
300
A violent storm with strong winds and heavy rains.
What is a hurricane?
300
When melted rock, gases, and pieces of rock and dust are forced out of an opening in the ground.
What is an erupting volcano?
300
A huge mass of slow moving ice.
What is a glacier?
400
Low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
400
Where the ocean meets the land.
What is a coast?
400
A sudden movement in the rocks that make up the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
400
When a violent wind storm sweeps across an area flattening everything in its path.
What is a tornado?
400
When this changes rocks become weathered which causes changes.
What is the temperature?
500
Flat land with steep sides. It is higher than the land aroudn it.
What is a plateau?
500
Part of a lake or ocean that extends into the land.
What is a bay?
500
An opening in the Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
500
A wind storm that blew thick, black clouds of dust across the plains in 1930.
What is a dust bowl?
500
These make up the air, water, and everything around you. They also cause slow changes to rocks.
What are chemicals?
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