Landforms and Florida 2.2

The Floridan ____________ is found beneath all of Florida and portions of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, and extends into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean

• aquifer

• coastline

• sinkhole

• border

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Formed by the action of water or wind, carrying abrasive particles capable of carving rock.

• deltas

• sinkhole

• caves

• coastlines

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The _________ is the land along a sea. The boundary, where land meets water, is called the __________. Waves, tides, and currents help create _________. When waves crash onto shore, they wear away at, or erode, the land.

• deltas

• mountains

• lakes

• coastlines

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

These are land forms created at or near the mouths of rivers. They are caused by sediment, typically silt, that is eroded into a river and carried to its mouth, where the sediment is deposited.

• dunes

• deltas

• coastlines

• sinkholes

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NGSS.4-ESS2-1

A ________________ is a mound of sand formed by the wind, usually along the beach or in a desert.

• coastline

• glacier

• mountain

• dune

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

_______________________begin to form when snow remains in the same area year-round, where enough snow accumulates to transform into ice

• rivers

• lakes

• glaciers

• mountains

These can form in hollows left by meteorite impacts, in the craters formed by volcanoes, when a river is dammed by a natural rock fall or man or where glaciers cause depressions in the Earth's surface

• glaciers

• volcanoes

• lakes

• Rivers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Formed when pieces of Earth's crust—called plates—smash against each other in a process called plate tectonics, and buckle up like the hood of a car in a head-on collision.

• sinkholes

• mountains

• caves

• deltas

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Tiny stream running down a mountain slope, are fed by melting snow and ice, or by rainwater running off the land. The water follows cracks and folds in the land as it flows downhill. Small streams meet and join together, growing larger and larger until the flow can be called a ___________________

• Lake

• River

• Ocean

• Sea

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When the land surface above collapses or sinks into the cavities or when surface material is carried downward into the voids; drought, along with resulting high groundwater withdrawals, can make conditions favorable for this to form

• deltas

• mountains

• caves

• sinkholes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2