Lanforms 101
This tall landform rises high above the land around it.
What is a mountain?
This is the largest body of water on Earth.
What is the ocean?
This process breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This natural disaster happens when rocks and soil suddenly slide down a hill.
What is a landslide?
This natural force moves sand on beaches and shapes dunes.
What is wind?
This low area sits between two mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
This flowing water moves from higher land to lower land.
What is a river or stream?
Wind or water moving rock, sand, or soil is called this.
What is erosion?
This event can change land quickly when hot melted rock erupts from Earth's surface.
What is a volcanic eruption?
This type of water movement carves rivers and canyons over time.
What is flowing water?
This landform is made of sand and shaped by wind.
What is a sand dune?
This giant moving river of ice shapes the land slowly.
What is a glacier?
When wind blows sand into new shapes over many years, this landform is changed.
What is a sand dune?
When ground shakes suddenly, land can crack or shift.
What is an earthquake?
This cold natural force moves slowly but can carve entire valleys.
What is a glacier?
This landform is created where land meets the ocean and is covered in sand.
What is a beach?
Water can be found as a liquid and this solid form.
What is ice?
Ice wedging is slow, but powerful. It happens when water does this in rock cracks.
What is freeze and expand?
Heavy rain can cause this fast change when water suddenly covers land.
What is a flood?
The process of rock pieces dropping and settling in a new place is called this.
What is deposition?
These natural structures, like the ones in Utah, form when wind and water wear away rock over time.
What are rock arches?
These heated underground pools shoot steam and hot water into the air.
What are geysers?
Over thousands of years, glaciers carve deep valleys. This deep U-shaped landform is one example.
What is a glacial valley?
Lava from a volcano cools into this type of new landform.
What is igneous rock or new rock?
These three things—wind, water, and ice—are all examples of this type of Earth-changing power.
What are natural forces?