Features of Landforms
Highlands
Lowlands
Coastal Landforms
Water Bodies
100
natural shapes that are unevenly distributed over the earth’s surface
What is the definition of a landform?
100
Three examples of highlands
What are mountains, hills and plateaus?
100
Two examples of Lowlands
What are plains and valleys?
100
Three examples or features of Coastal Landforms
What are cliffs? OR blowholes? OR caves? OR What are curving bays? OR peninsulas? OR inlets?
100
Four important types of water bodies
What are the seas, oceans, rivers and lakes?
200
Four different types of landforms
What are highlands, lowlands, coastal landforms and water bodies?
200
a striking landform that is much higher than the surrounding area (about 1000 m above sea level).
What is a mountain?
200
100 m below sea level
What is the general height of a plain?
200
located where the land meets the ocean and the coastline is altered and sculptured by the forces of the water.
What is a coastal landform?
200
drainage systems that transport fresh water from highland regions to lowland regions (such as the ocean or sea) due to the force of gravity.
What is a river?
300
Wearing down and building up of the surface by water and wind
What cause landforms to change over time?
300
When magma deep in the earth’s core forces its way through a vent or passage onto the earth’s surface.
What causes volcanic mountains?
300
areas of lowland between mountains or hills
What is a valley?
300
the result of both wearing away (erosion) and building up (deposition) of the land.
What is a coastal landform?
300
formed in depressions or hollows in the earth’s surface.
What is a lake?
400
The four items that appear on ALL maps
What is the north point, legend/ key, scale and the date?
400
* Himalayas * Rocky Mountains * Mount Etna * Mount Saint Helens.
What are examples of mountains?
400
formed when a block of the earth’s crust located between two parallel faults drops downwards.
What is a rift valley?
400
the most powerful forces working on coastlines (although currents, tides and other water movement also bring about changes).
What is a wave?
400
Rivers systems are fed by these types of precipitation
What is rainfall? AND/OR snow? AND/OR ice?
500
The earth's crust is covered in these and they assist with distinguishing continents from one another.
What is a landform?
500
highlands with steep slopes, which are also known as scarps, around their edges.
What is a plateau?
500
form where the land is worn away by the running water of a river.
What is a river valley?
500
May be rocky with cliffs, blowholes and caves or possess other features such as curving bays, peninsulas and inlets.
What does the coast look like?
500
The cause of river landforms
What is erosion or deposition?
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