What Processes Change Landforms

What Processes Change

Landforms?

What are physical features on Earth’s surface?

Which is an example of a landform?

• House

• Mountain

• Lawn

• skyscraper

moving sediment from one place to another

Breaking rocks into silt, sand, clay, and sediment

downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity

dropping sediment in a new location

Which natural forces can cause a sudden change?

• Glaciers

• Rain

• Volcanic eruptions

• Steady winds

Arizona’s Grand Canyon was carved by the action of the

______.

• Hudson river

• Mississippi River

• Potomic River

• Colorado River

A _____ is a man-made structure that regulates the flow of water.

A ____ is a thick sheet of ice, formed in areas where more snow falls during winter than

melts during the summer.

_______ ________ are rich agricultural areas, but are dangerous places for people to live because of periodic flooding.

____ move wet soil quickly.

______ is a mass movement where soil moves slowly downhill because of gravity. The changes of landforms happen so slowly that they’re hard to observe directly.

A _____ is a large hole in the ground that opens suddenly. It forms after rock under the surface has dissolved or become weak.

What kind of landform can be formed when a glacier begins melting back and deposits the sediments it has been carrying with it?

A _______ is mass movement that moves dry rock and soil downhill quickly.

What kind of landform can be formed by deposition of sediment from an underwater volcano?

What kind of landform can be formed by the eroding force of a river channel?