Earths Features Landforms Objective Be able to identify
Earth’s Features! Landforms Objective: Be able to identify and describe the earth’s features and the processes that form and shape them. Why should we know this? ? ? By understanding your environment and having knowledge about what affects it and how it affects you, you become a more informed citizen, and in our country we all have a responsibility or at least an opportunity to vote on issues and have the freedom to start businesses in which this knowledge could well be beneficial. Bodies of water
Instructions…. . 1. Read the description of the feature on the screen.
A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill. 2. Draw the feature. *The description is like your instructions… 3. What is the feature? 4. What process forms or shapes this feature?
Mountain *considerable mass? *steep sides? *higher than a hill? Put a bunch of them together and you have a mountain……. range
A narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water.
STRAIT Large body of water. Small body of water. Another large body of water.
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger masses of land.
large piece of land isthmus (try saying that five times really fast!) another large piece of land Public Domain. Suggested Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U. S. /Japan ASTER Science Team
A usually triangular mass of sediment, especially silt and sand, deposited at the mouth of a river. *They are usually crossed by numerous streams and channels and have exposed as well as submerged areas.
delta Related terms. Estuary 1. The wide lower course of a river where it flows into the sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt. 2. An arm of the sea that extends inland to meet the mouth of a river. Mouth of a river. Place where a river flows into a larger body of water.
A group of many islands in a large body of water.
island archipelago another island another one okay, one more! and finally
A ring-like coral island reef that nearly or entirely encloses a lagoon.
atoll lagoon
A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between steep slopes.
fjord
A steep slope or long cliff that separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.
Also described as a steep cliff or slope. escarpment
A large or high waterfall.
Also a cataract… Cataract Opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, causing impairment of vision or blindness memory association…. falling water….
A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.
Larger river Smaller river Tributary
A large piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
Peninsula
A flat area resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water.
Alluvial plain Note: alluvial soil - a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds.
An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland.
Plateau
A long, relatively narrow island running parallel to the mainland.
mainland Long narrow island barrier island
A narrow deep valley with steep sides
Canyon
Plateau Canyon Peninsula Isthmus Headwaters Strait Atoll Archipelago Tributary Cataract Rift valley Barrier island Escarpment Delta Fjord
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