Landforms, Hey! - Crash Course 17.1

Wind and water are constantly changing what our planet's surface looks like by

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Erasure

• Withering

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Many mountains are formed when...

• large plates collide and land is forced upward.

• large bowls fall and mountains fall out and land on the Earth.

• huge hands in the sky comes down and moves the Earth around like a kid making sandcastles.

• One mountain started cloning itself in different locations across the globe.

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A low area of land between two hills or mountains.

• Valley

• Baby Mountains

• Lowlands

• Half-Pipe

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Plateaus are like mountains with ____.

• flat tops

• peaks

• lava

• Play-dough

Mesas (which is the Spanish word for "tables") are _____.

• medium-sized plateaus

• small-sized plateaus

• tables randomly placed around the world in the middle of forests and deserts.

• large-sized plateaus.

Small-ish plateaus are called ____.

(I made the choices all rhyme so you pronounce them correctly)

• buttes

• cutes

• mutes

• newts

Plateaus are formed by _____ and _____ .

• erosion

• magma

• manga

• erasers

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When magma breaks through the Earth's surface (erupts), it is now called _____.

An area of land that loses more water to the air than it gets through precipitation.

• dessert

• desert

• rainforest

• dezert

The Sahara is a desert located in ____.

• Africa

• Australia

• California

• South America