Lesson 3: Landforms

Which picture best shows a plain?

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The Grand Canyon is located in the state of:​ (a)  

• Arizona
• Colorado
• California
• New Mexico

Canyons are formed by:

• glaciers digging into land

• land squeezing together

• water depositing sediments

• rivers eroding sediments

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How do minerals get into a cave?

• They are deposited by rivers underground.

• They form when lava cools and becomes hard.

• They dissolve in water and flow into the cave through cracks.

• Wind blows them in through cracks.

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Which answer lists a way that plains can form?

• lava flow

• land squeezing together

• glaciers digging holes

• from ocean waves

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A stalagmite is a structure found:

• on a hill

• on a mountain

• in a cave

• in a canyon

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Which answer best explains how caves are formed:

• Rivers carry away sediments.

• Plant roots break apart rocks.

• Water dissolves rock underground.

• Volcanoes erupt.

Which is not a way that hills form?

• Water dissolves rock underground.

• Landforms erode.

• Glaciers melt and deposit sediments.

• Land squeezes together.

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A natural structure of land is called:

• a mineral

• a sediment

• deposition

• a landform

Stalagmites from when:

• minerals build up on the floor of a cave

• lava cools and becomes hard

• land squeezes together

• sediments are carried away