What does Earth look like?
What does it look like where water meets land?
What is below the Earth's surface?
Vocabulary
Landforms
100
A large land mass surrounded by oceans or other land
What is a Continent?
100
The gently sloping edge of a continent that connects the shore to the sea
What is the continental slope?
100
the sphere of solid material at Earth's center
What is the inner core?
100
The solid rock that makes up Earth's outermost layer
What is the mantle?
100
the tallest and most visible landforms
What are mountains?
200
A physical feature of the land
What is a Landform?
200
Features that look like canyons in the ocean floor
What are trenches?
200
below the crust lies a layer of rock
What is the mantle?
200
the underwater edge of a continent
What is the continental shelf?
200
gusts of wind pile sand into large mounds in desserts
What are sand dunes?
300
Valleys and canyons are examples of landforms shaped by
What is water?
300
The name of a region of land where water drains into a river
What is a drainage basin?
300
the outermost layere of Earth is made up of solid rock
What is the crust?
300
the sphere of solid material at Earth's center
What is the inner core?
300
a V shaped landform formed over time by water
What is a valley?
400
mounds formed where wind blows sand
What is a sand dune?
400
Underwater mountains that run through an ocean
What is an ocean ridge?
400
the outer core is below the mantle and is made of melted
What is iron?
400
a region of land with water that runs into a river
What is a drainage basin?
400
a mountain formed by melted rock
What is a volcano?
500
streams and rivers flow to create these
What are gullies or channels?
500
The movement of a river slows down as it nears the ocean dropping deposits that form triangular shaped landforms
What is a delta?
500
rock in the mantle can move or flow slowly because of great pressure and high
What is temperature?
500
very flat land
What is a plain?
500
a V shaped valley
What is a canyon?
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