Landforms - for Graphic Organizer

Landforms

Formed when rivers deposit tiny pieces of rock at the mouth of a river

Delta

form as waves repeatedly deposit sediment parallel to the shoreline

Barrier Island

Beaches are wave-deposited buildup of sediment located at the shoreline.

Beaches

formed by tides in lowland areas near a coast. Rivers often form marshlands on low lying floodplains and near lakes that flood during the wet season.

Marshes

forms from water moving from a higher elevation to a lower elevation, all due to gravity

Rivers

A canyon is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides that forms over millions of years.

A river's flowing water erodes, or wears away, soil and rocks to form a valley.

Canyons

Dunes may form wherever there is a lot of loose sand and enough wind to move it.

They created when wind deposits sand on top of each other until a small mound starts to form.

Sand Dunes

• Created by running rivers and shifting glaciers.

• Usually occur between ranges of hills or mountains

• most commonly formed by rivers that erode soil and rocks.

Valleys

​Glaciersand tectonic plate movement can also create valleys.

• Cliffs​ are the steep rockfaces that frame valleys and many seas and oceans

• They are created when natural weather events such as wind, rain or waves break tiny particles and pieces of soft rocks and minerals away from harder rocks

Cliffs

• A moraine is material left behind by a moving glacier.

• They are formed when a glacier melts and the sediments that it had been carrying gets dropped in a new place. This sediment gets pushed up by the glacier.

Moraines

Glacial Deposits

• Moraines are formed when a glacier melts and the sediments that it had been carrying get dropped in a new place.