1 / 6

Landforms

Landforms. Brooke Ard 5 th Grade Griggs Road Elementary. Weathering Vocabulary. Chemical Weathering - the erosion or disintegration of rocks, building materials, etc., caused by chemical reactions  Dissolve - become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.

jdouglas
Download Presentation

Landforms

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Landforms Brooke Ard 5th Grade Griggs Road Elementary

  2. Weathering Vocabulary • Chemical Weathering - the erosion or disintegration of rocks, building materials, etc., caused by chemical reactions  • Dissolve - become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution. • Physical Weathering - breaking down of the earth's surface through the process of natural or physical means • Negative – harmful or bad • Sediments -Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice.

  3. Weathering Vocabulary (cont.) • Gravity - the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth • Weathering - processes that break down rocks at or near the surface of the earth.

  4. Erosion Vocabulary • Destructive Forces - Processes that destroy landforms • Erosion- movement of sediments and soil by wind, water, ice, and gravity • Flood - When large amount of water covers land that is usually dry. • Landslide - mass movements of land due to gravity. • Tsunami - A very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.

  5. Deposition Vocabulary • Construction - the building of something • Constructive Forces - Processes that create landforms • Deposition - dropping, or depositing, of sediments by water, wind, or ice. • Positive - good or useful

  6. Other Important Vocabulary • Agriculture - cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming • Landform- a natural feature of the earth's surface • Conservation - the action of conserving something • Fossil Fuel - a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. • Mining - the process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine. • Natural Resources - materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain

More Related