Landforms

Mountains and hills are types of landforms. What is another type of landform?

• Scales

• Grids

• Hurricanes

• Valleys

What are landforms?

• Rules

• Cultural celebrations

• 2-dimensional shapes

• Natural shapes that make up the Earth’s surface

What are these examples of?

· Earthquakes

· Volcanoes

· Hurricanes

• Landforms

• Processes that help create landforms

• Maps

• Mountains

What are the highest type of landforms on Earth?

• Mountains

• Hills

• Plains

• Valleys

Guadalupe Peak

Guadalupe Peak is the highest point in Texas. What type of landform is Guadalupe Peak?

• Mountains

• Hills

• Plain

• Valley

What type of landform is slightly above the land around it?

• Mountains

• Valley

• Plain

• Hills

What is a valley?

• The low land between hills and mountains

• The highest type of landform on Earth

• Landforms that rise slightly above the land around them

• places with very dry climates

A plain is ___________________________________.

• A place with very dry climate

• A flat piece of land

• The highest type of landform

• A hurricane

How can you describe the climate in the Chihuahuan Desert?

• A place between two hills or two mountains

• A place where water covers the soil most of the time

• A place with very dry climate

• A place with a lot of rain

Galveston Bay

This landform is important because it protects and improves water quality, provides fish and wild life habitats, stores flood waters and maintains surface water flow during dry periods. What landform is this?

• Mountains

• Valley

• Plain

• Wetland