Landforms Vocabulary 5.7B

a mountain made from hardened lava, rocks, and ash that erupted from underneath the Earth’s surface

• earthquake

• volcano

• mountain

the breaking down of rock on the surface of the Earth, usually by the force of wind, water, or ice

• deposition

• erosion

• weathering

the high wall along a river and the river itself

• delta

• canyon

• sand dune

the movement of weathered particles by water, wind or ice

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

a huge piece of ice that slowly moves across the surface of the Earth and remains frozen during the entire year

• glacier

• landform

• delta

a large, flat area of land at the mouth of a river formed by the deposition of sediments

• sand dune

• canyon

• delta

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

a hill of sand formed by the deposition of sand by the wind

• canyon

• delta

• sand dune

the process by which materials that have been eroded are dropped in a new place

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

a hill of sand formed by the deposition of sand by the wind

• delta

• sand dune

• canyon

the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by large pieces of rock underneath the Earth’s surface moving against each other

• earthquake

• landslide

• volcano