4th Grade - Landforms

a V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream

• arch

• canyon

• butte

• valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon

• gorge

• mesa

• butte

• valley

a hill with steeps sides and a small, flat top

• arch

• butte

• canyon

• mesa

a curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering weakens the center, and the rock erodes.

• arch

• butte

• mesa

• valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

5. a single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side

• canyon

• butte

• mesa

• hanging valley

a valley floor above another valley floor

• mesa

• butte

• gorge

• hanging valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows

• valley

• canyon

• gorge

• mesa

A rock shaped like a mushroom or statue

• mesa

• delta

• levee

• hoodoo

rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering

• spheriodal rocks

• sand bar

• levee

• hoodoo

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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

• floodplain

• beach

• delta

• meander

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4