Layers
Earth's top layer
What is crust?
A natural flow of water which runs towards an ocean, lake, or sea
What is a river?
Low land surrounded by hills or mountains
What is a valley?
Large land masses on Earth
What are continents?
A large underground chamber in a hillside or cliff
What is a cave?
Earth's middle layer
What is the mantle?
A place where a river or stream flows over a steep region or cliff
What is a waterfall?
A deep, narrow valley with high, steep walls usually formed by water
What is a canyon?
The ocean to the west of the U.S.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A triangular deposit of sediment at the end of a river or stream
What is a Delta?
Earth's innermost layer
What is the core?
A body of water that is partially enclosed by water (ex. San Fransisco has one)
Bay
A high area of land with a very steep side found on coasts, in mountain regions, and in canyons
What is a cliff?
Hawaii is an example of this
What is an island?
A narrow strip of land with water on both sides connecting two larger pieces of land (ex. Panama)
What is an isthmus?
When tectonic plates move, they often cause these to happen
What are earthquakes?
The Great Lakes were formed by these
What are glaciers?
Florida is an example of this
What is a peninsula?
This imaginary line that runs side to side across the middle of the earth
What is the Equator?
This mountain range runs through the western U.S. states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
What are the Rocky Mountains?
The supercontinent made up of all the continents put together
What is Pangea?
The 5 oceans
Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Southern
The Sahara is an example of this landform
What is a desert?
This imaginary line runs up and down, splitting the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
Pieces of earth's crust that are constantly moving
What are tectonic plates?