Identifying Landforms and Water Bodies

A narrow valley with steep sides

• Deep ocean trench

• Canyon

• Rift

• Mountain range

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A landform, often a mountain with an opening that allows melted rock to flow out of it

• canyon

• hotspot

• valley

• Volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A flat area of land made of sand and mud that builds up where a river meets a slow-moving body of water, like an ocean or lake

• Delta

• Canyon

• River

• Valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A long, flowing stream of fresh water that moves across land toward a sea, lake, or another river.

• Delta

• River

• Lake

• Seamount

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A group of connected mountains in a line or cluster, formed by forces that push Earth’s crust upward.

• Canyon

• Valley

• Mid-ocean trench

• Mountain Range

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A long, deep valley that forms when Earth’s crust pulls apart along a rift. As the land stretches and sinks between two raised sides, a rift valley appears — often with steep walls and a flat floor where rivers or lakes can form.

• Canyon

• Rift Valley

• Delta

• Mountain range

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The part of Earth’s outer layer that lies under the ocean; it is thinner and denser than continental crust.

• Delta

• Oceanic crust

• Deep ocean trench

• Continental Crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The part of Earth’s outer layer that makes up the continents; it is thicker and less dense than oceanic crust.

• Continental Crust

• Hotspot

• Oceanic Crust

• Delta

A very deep, narrow depression in the ocean floor where one tectonic plate slides under another.

• River

• Mid ocean trench

• Rift Valley

• Deep ocean trench

An underwater mountain chain where tectonic plates are moving apart and new ocean floor is made by rising molten rock.

• Hotspot

• Oceanic

• Mid-ocean trench

• Deep ocean trench

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3