Landforms
What is taller than hills
Mountains
Name the 4 Oceans
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Artic
what is the longest river in the world
Nile
What is the earth's crust broken into pieces
Plates
breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, temperature changes etc.
Weathering
What is a group of mountains
Mountain Range
Bodies of water fully enclosed by land
Lakes
where the river dumps into the ocean
mouth
deep cracks in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions
Faults
what is the removal of the particles made by weathering
Erosion
Coastal Plains
Arms of the ocean partially enclosed by land
Sea
where a river begins
headwater/source
Sediment bends upward into a fold when it is pushed from both sides
Folds
what is sand, silt and clay mixed together called
sediment
Worlds most rugged plateaus
Highlands
sheltered body of deep water next to the shore
Harbor
main river and all its tributaries
River System
plates crash into and pull apart from each other, releasing energy from the earth's interior
Plate Tectonics theory
what is decayed, dead matter
Humus
Landmass surrounded by water
Island
areas of stagnant water in lowland regions
wetland
rivers that feed other rivers
What 2 types of forces change the earths surface
Internal and external forces
Name two of the 4 types of erosion
Wind, wave, glacier, running water