Landforms
An area of low land between two mountains or hills.
What is a valley?
An opening in the Earth's crust through which magma from the mantle erupts.
What is a volcano?
A large body of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
A natural shape on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
What are four forms of precipitation?
What are rain, sleet, snow and hail
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
When rocks, dirt, or soil quickly fall down the side of a landform like a mountain or canyon.
What is a landslide?
What are three things that can cause erosion, weathering and deposition?
What are wind, water and ice
A slow process of rocks getting dropped in another place by water, wind, and ice.
What is deposition?
Change of a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation
A large crack in the earth formed by a river or earthquake.
What is a canyon?
When tectonic plates slide and cause the ground to shake.
What is an earthquake?
A landform created by weathering, erosion, and depositon at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Small bits of rock and soil that are moved by water to another place.
What is sediment?
The change from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation
A large area of flat land that is raised higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
An extremely large, forceful wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
What is erosion
What moves through Earth's surface and the atmosphere in a process
What is the water cycle
An area of land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
A large hill made of sand created by erosion and deposition.
What is a sand dune?
The process of rock breaking apart
What is weathering
The mixture of gasses that surrounds Earth
What is the atmosphere