Landforms

What landform is a low area between mountains where a stream, glacier, or river flows?

• mountain

• valley

• desert

• delta

What landform is a fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream or river?

• mountain

• plain

• volcano

• delta

What is a break in Earth's crust where blocks of rock fracture and move?

The San Andreas is a very well known one.

• fault

• valley

• canyon

• beach

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What landform is a low area of Earth's surface that is often formed by flat lying sediments?

• mountain

• hill

• valley

• plain

What landform is made by eruptions and is a place where lava, cinders, ash, and gases pour out through an opening in Earth's crust?

• sand dune

• plain

• volcano

• valley

The sand deposited by wind in ridges, mounds, or hills?

• sand dune

• valley

• delta

• volcano

What landform is a high, nearly level, uplifted area of rock.

• valley

• desert

• plateau

• volcano

An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between low-tide and high-tide levels at a coast or lake?

• beach

• volcano

• valley

• mountain

Weathering, erosion, and deposition work together to form and shape landforms.

True or False?

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The fast downward movement of earth material.

• valley

• landslide

• mountain

• desert

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2