Thursday, March 29, 2018

landform vocabulary


  • Erosion: a process of change or effect of water soil or wind.
  •  Flood: an overflow of large amount of water beyond its limit 
  • weathering:weathering is a natural process  that slowly breaks apart or changes rocks. 
  • deforestation: cutting down forests.  
  • earth's plate: a chain of volcano surround  the pacific ocean. There are  two sides. 
  • landslide: a mass of soil  or rocks moving a slope is known as a landslide. 
  • glaciers: it is many of the world's highest mountain, the heat of summer is not a must to melt, all the snow from winter.      
  • rapid process erosion: when erosion happens fast.
  • slow process erosion: when erosion happens  slow. 
  •  tsunami: under water earthquake happen the waves come and a tsunami. 
  • earthquake: ground shakes. happens when the lava under earth hit a rock then it shakes the earth. 
  • debris: in many of the world's high mountains the heat of the summer is not enough to melt the snow.  
  • topsoil:topsoil is the soil we plant in. the first soil layer.
  • sediment: kind of sand that drys 
  • volcanos: opening in the earth surface with molted rocks. 
  • canyon: a deep steep walled   that  was cut  by a ocen  though limestome.   
  • plateau: flat surface area.


  • dune: sand changes it shape by wind     
  • delta: when a river runs by two paths apart.
  • valley: a v shaped landform cut by a river though rocks.  


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