5th Grade Science - Landforms

• A method for removing fossil fuels from hills
• The formation of caves in hills
• The formation of plains
• A method for separating minerals

• Floods eroded the sandstone away from the canyon walls.
• Glaciers eroded the canyon rock as they melted and moved.
• Ice wedged into cracks in the rock and weathered the canyon walls.
• Wind blew large rocks that smashed against the canyon walls.

• Flash Flood
• A Glacier
• A Hurricane
• Melting Snow

• Sand and mud from the Gulf of Mexico were washed ashore by tsunamis.
• The river cut through the solid bedrock of the valley.
• The river deposited large amounts of sediment from land erosion.
• Hurricanes pushed soil and debris from the Gulf of Mexico onto the land.

• Erosion by wind
• Weathering by water freezing and thawing
• Erosion by fast moving water
• Sediments being deposited