Mountains
These are the tallest landforms on Earth and usually have steep sides and a peak.
What are mountains?
These landforms are lower and more rounded than mountains.
What are hills?
This landform is high and flat on top, often called a “tableland.”
What is a plateau?
These landforms are large areas of flat or gently rolling land.
What are plains?
This famous mountain range runs along the western side of North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Hills often form through this process that slowly wears down mountains.
What is erosion?
This plateau in the United States is where you can find the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
Plains are good for this activity because the land is flat and soil is often rich.
What is farming?
Mountains are often formed by this movement of Earth’s crust.
What are tectonic plate movements?
A famous U.S. monument carved into a hill in South Dakota.
What is Mount Rushmore?
Plateaus can form when this underground material pushes land upward.
What is magma?
This large plain region in the United States is known for agriculture.
What are the Great Plains?
The tallest mountain on Earth above sea level.
What is Mount Everest?
the maximum height of a hill
what is less than 1000 ft or less than 300 meters
This process can carve deep valleys and canyons into plateaus.
What is erosion?
Plains are often formed by this material deposited by rivers or wind.
What is sediment?
These mountains formed when Earth’s crust folded during collisions of tectonic plates.
What are fold mountains?
This term describes a landscape filled with many hills.
What is rolling hills?
The largest and highest plateau in the world
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
A flat plain located near the ocean is called this.
What is a coastal plain?