Land form Vocabulary

Land Form Vocabulary

Erosion: A process of eroding


 Flood: A overflowing of water


 Weathering: A chemical that causes rocks to expose


 Deforestation: To clear a forest


 Earth's plates:2 sub layers of the earth crust


 Landslides:A sliding of a mass of soil


 Glaciers: Mass of ice formed by snow


 Erosion rapid process:When the wind picks up sand and rocks and  takes them to another place in a quick and fast way 



erosion slow process: When the wind picks up sand and rocks and  takes them to another place really slowly


 Tsunami: Big sea wave created by a underwater volcano


 Earthquake: A strong vibration


 Debris: A accumulation of rocks


 Topsoil: The top part of the soil


Sediment: The matter that is at the bottom of a liquid


 Volcanoes: A hill with a crater in the middle that when explodes lava comes out


 Canyon: A very deep mountain with very steep sides


 Plateau: A area of relatively level surface raised above


 Dune: A small sand hill created by wind and sand


 delta: A landform formed by a deposition of sediment


 Valley:A elongated depression of a hill that follows a course of a stream