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 map that shows boundaries between states or countries.
What is a political map?
A natural shape on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
A group of mountains close together.
What is a mountain range?
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
When rocks and dirt quickly fall down the side of a landform like a mountain or canyon.
What is a landslide?
A map that shows physical features of land.
What is a physical map?
The top layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
The crack of land between two tectonic plates in earth's crust.
What is a fault?
A large and deep 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?
The part of a map that shows what the symbols mean.
What is a key or legend?
Small bits of rock and soil that are moved by water to another place.
What is sediment?
Remains of bones that have been preserved by the pressure of layers of earth.
What are fossils?
A large area of flat land that is raised higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
A powerful funnel of wind that tears across land
What is a tornado?
The horizontal and vertical lines found on a map to show distance.
What are latitude and longitude?
The Earth's crust is made up of these large sections that move very slowly.
What are tectonic plates?
The flat area of land at the bottom of the ocean.
What are abyssal plains?
An area of land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
The force that causes the most erosion.
What is water?
A map that shows landforms such as mountains and volcanoes.
What is a topographical map?
The process of earth being worn away by weather.
What is erosion?
A cold force that can (very) slowly weather rocks over time.
What is ice?