Landforms 4th Grade Rotation

What is a canyon?

• A V-shaped gorge with steep sides.

• A place that is very grand.

• A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows.

• Land covered by water in a flood.

A meander is...

• the way someone walks.

• the view from a canyon.

• A curve or loop in a stream or river.

• a type of rock.

What is a plain?

• Something you ride in when you go on vacation.

• A field.

• A flat or gently sloping surface made of sorted sediments deposited by water from melting glaciers.

• A low area of Earth's surface that is often formed of flat-lying sediments.

A plateau is...

• the same as a mountain.

• a high, nearly level, uplifted area made of layers of rock.

• the sand deposited by wind in ridges, mounds, or hills.

• something I eat dinner on.

A delta is...

• a fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.

• an area made of sand and other sizes of rock between the low-tide level and the high tide level.

• a river.

• a fan shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto land.