Landforms
vast, flat, and smooth area of the deep ocean floor, typically located between 3,000 and 6,000 meters (9,800 to 19,700 feet) deep.
What are Abyssal plains?
Rhythmic disturbances on the surface of the ocean, characterized by a rising and falling motion that transfers energy through the water
What are waves?
This natural process transports pieces of rocks and landforms through wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
This human activity creates gigantic holes for collecting precious metals.
What is mining?
Nepal, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States are home to some of the largest examples of this landform.
What are mountains?
the land along the edge of a sea, lake, or other large body of water.
What is a Shore?
A long, narrow island of sand and sediment that runs parallel to the coastline, separated from the mainland by a shallow body of water like a bay, lagoon, or sound
What are Barrier Islands?
This natural process breaks down rocks, soil, and minerals into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
What is land reclamation?
A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust
What is volcano?
What are landslides?
A lowland formed by the Earth's crust pulling apart at two parallel faults, often creating a valley with steep sides flanked by higher ground
What are rift valleys?
YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO SAY 3 DIFFERENT LANDFORMS!!!!
Valleys, volcanoes, islands, etc..
This country is world-renowned for using dams to reclaim land from sea and protect against floods.
What is the Netherlands?
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
watershed
This landform is created when mountains erode or when magma swells up below the surface of the earth.
What are plateaus?
A strip of land covered with sand, pebbles, or small stones at the edge of a body of water, especially by the ocean between high- and low-water marks.
What are beaches?
The shallow, underwater edge of a continent that slopes gently away from the coastline before dropping off steeply at the continental slope
What is a Continental Shelf?
This is the name of a city in the Middle East that regularly uses land reclamation to make beautiful islands and city developments.
What is Dubai?
seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics
Mid-ocean ridge
This landform is very dry and has little/no water..
What is a desert?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
This landform is usually in the shape of a triangle and is found where rivers meet the ocean.
What are deltas?
This natural process explains how eroded soil and rock is transported and creates new landforms in a new location.
What is deposition?
Humans have also indirectly caused huge decreases in the size of what natural landform.
What are glaciers?
vast, flat, and smooth area of the deep ocean floor, typically located between 3,000 and 6,000 meters (9,800 to 19,700 feet) deep.
What is Abyssal Plain