Landforms 1
Something that moves sand and dirt while the water cuts small paths in the ground.
What is wind?
This is a plateau in Utah and has many rock towers that rise high into the air.
What is Monument Valley?
large bodies of water with land all
around them
What are lakes?
A large arch is made by this
What is a wind and water?
This is in Arizona and is the best known of nature's sculptures.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Sometimes soil or loose rocks slide down slopes because of this.
What is gravity?
Some are tall and pointed and others are short and round.
What shapes are hoodoos?
What is rainwater?
Made by rocks that can sometimes look like a castle or animal
What is a hoodoo?
A river that has flowed through the Grand Canyon for a long time.
What is the Colorado River?
Things that can move, stop, or change the direction of other objects.
What are forces?
Land that is high and level or flat like on top
What is a plateau?
water that has salt in it, found in oceans
and some lakes
What is saltwater?
The flow of the Colorado River, wind, and ice erosion does this.
What shapes the Grand Canyon?
places of great natural beauty set aside by a government
What are monuments?
the solid part of Earth’s surface
What is land?
natural features of Earth’s surface,
such as valleys, mountains, or hills
What are landforms?
the salt water that covers most of
Earth’s surface or one of its main
sections
What are oceans?
happens when a large part of Earth’s surface
suddenly moves
What is an earthquake?
Without this, living things—
including people—could not survive
What is water?
30% of Earth's surface is covered by this
What is land?
This can build a mountain in just a few days.
What is a volcano?
large streams of water that flow
downhill across land
What are rivers?
is mostly tiny bits of rock, bits of dead plants and animals and water
What is soil?
gives living things what they need to survive, such
as food and a place to live
What is Earth's surface?