Elevation
High area of land with steep sides.
What is a mountain?
A piece of land that has got water on all sides.
What is an island?
What is igneous rock?
Small particles of rock form layers under the sea. These layers stick together to form this rock. Sometimes there are small spaces between the individual rock particles.
What is sedimentary rock?
Substances that exist naturally on the Earth. Rock and sand are made of this.
What are minerals?
A group of mountains.
What is a mountain range?
A long narrow piece of land that extends into the ocean. It has got water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
An opening in the Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
Sometimes plants and/or bodies of animals become stuck between these layers.
What are fossils?
The hardest mineral.
What is diamond?
A high area of land. It's lower than a mountain.
What is a hill?
An area of sea that cuts into the land. It's often in the shape of a C.
What is a bay?
Semi-liquid rock sometimes explodes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
High temperature or a lot of pressure can make one type of rock change to another type.
What is metamorphic rock?
The softest mineral.
What is talc?
A large area of flat land.
What is a plain?
A low area of land between mountains or hills. Most contain a river.
What is a valley?
This rock is black, hard, shiny look, has no air spaces, and can be found near a volcano.
What is obsidian?
A metamorphic rock used to make tiles or sculptures.
What is marble?
Gold and silver are examples of this type of mineral.
What is metal?
Uses different colors to show high and low land. Low land is green. Very high land is usually brown. Rivers are blue lines. The ocean is blue.
What is a relief map?
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
Used in construction and kitchen worktops.
What is granite?
This rock is created when high temperature and high pressure are applied to granite.
What is gneiss?
A common mineral used to make jewelery, glass, and rocks.
What is quartz?