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Planet Earth
Mountains
Valleys & Plains
Lakes & Rivers
Coastlines
100
The name of the large land masses.
What are continents?
100
The measure of a how high above sea level a mountain is.
What is elevation?
100
An area of land surrounded by higher ground.
What is a valley?
100
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
100
Where the land meets the water.
What is the coastline?
200
The number of large land masses in the world.
What is 7?
200
These are formed when air cools as it is pushed up.
What are clouds?
200
A rocky valley.
What is a canyon?
200
These have fresh water which flows from upland to a lake or sea.
What is a river?
200
The coastline has good __________ for ships to dock.
What are harbors?
300
The name of the type of scientist that studies the surface of the earth.
What is a geographer?
300
A fun sport to do on a mountain.
What is skiing?
300
Mostly flat areas of land.
What are plains?
300
Rivers can make electricity with a _____________ dam.
What is hydroelectric?
300
The beaches of Hawaii are examples of what type of sand beaches?
What is black sand?
400
The name of the process of removing rock and soil by wind and water.
What is erosion?
400
These are good for getting lumber.
What are trees?
400
True or False: Plains are really bad places to build homes.
What is FALSE?
400
The city that you would find the Seine River.
What is Paris?
400
How the black sand beaches are formed.
What is from volcanic lava?
500
The name of the place around us that affects how we live.
What is environment?
500
Name a way that people use mountains to make money (that we learned about this week).
What is farming or mining?
500
True or False? Some valleys are useful to people because they have fertile soil for growing crops.
What is TRUE?
500
Rivers can be found on each continent except...
What is Antarctica?
500
How the pink and white sand beaches get their color.
What is from tiny pieces of seashells?