Monday, March 12, 2018

Landforms Vocabulary words


Landforms Vocabulary


Flood:A flood is a natural disaster which  gets submerged  under water
Delta : A sediment of a river
Sediment: Bottom of a liquid
Erosion: Destruction of something
Weathering: comes carefully through (a storm)
Drainage basin: River
rapid process erosion :Destruction of something going fast

slow process erosion:Destruction of something going slow
Topsoil: top layer of the soil
Debris: scattered piece of trash remains
Flash flood: rain creating a big flood
Alluvial fan: cone like shape


Deforestation: removing all the trees in an area    
Landslides: a piece of the earth falls from a mountain or a cliff    
Glacier : of a large mass ice floating in the water
Tsunami: a long sea wave that is made by earthquakes   
Earthquake: the ground starts shaking witch is caused by the earths crust     
Volcanoes: a mountain with a medium sized whole that has lava inside and produces smoke           
Dune: small hill made out of sand
Canyon: a big whole on the ground with a river flowing through the whole      
Plateau: a level high ground      
valley: a low area of ground and on the sides mountains      




1 comment:

  1. Great job on getting to all the vocabulary really impressive

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