Physical Landforms
A large landform with a high elevation and steep side formed by tectonic plates.
Mountain
Enormous bodies of water that cover 70% of the Earth.
Ocean
The height of a place in comparison to sea level.
Elevation
This climate zone is found mainly along the equator and is hot year round.
Tropical
The largest hot desert.
Sahara Desert
An opening in the Earth's crust that pushes out molten rock.
Volcano
A body of water that is completely surrounded by land. Typically freshwater.
Lake
The imaginary line/circle that wraps around the middle of the Earth.
Equator
This climate has extremely cold weather year round with subtypes of tundras and ice caps.
Polar
The tallest mountain in the world.
Mount Everest
A flat area of land that has little changes in elevation.
Plains
A natural stream of water that flows downhill into a larger body of water.
River
Massive pieces of the Earth’s outer layers.
Tectonic Plates
This climate zone has more evaporation than precipitation.
Dry
The largest tropical rainforest.
Amazon Rainforest
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides and cliffs usually caused by moving water.
Canyon
A smaller river that flows into a larger river.
Tributary
The natural process of wind, water, and gravity that causes the movement or change of rock and soil.
Erosion
Temperate
This place holds 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of the world's earthquakes.
Ring of Fire
A landform caused by one oceanic plate continuously sliding under the other oceanic plate and are considered the deepest parts of the ocean.
Trench
A low-lying area of land where a river enters a larger body of water.
Delta
When mountains cause rain to fall on one side but not the other which causes one side to be vegetated and the other side being dry.
Rain Shadow
This is the climate zone that we live in. It has fluctuating temperatures and noticeably changing seasons.
Continental
The deepest part on planet earth (under water).
Mariana Trench