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Earth’s Features

Explore the diverse landforms of the Earth, classified by type to help you locate them. Learn about mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, peninsulas, archipelagos, and continental shelves.

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Earth’s Features

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  1. Earth’s Features

  2. Landforms • Natural features of the Earth’s surface • Classified by type to help people locate them

  3. Continents • 7 large landmasses 1. Asia – largest 2. Australia – smallest • Some people consider Europe and Asia to be one continent (Eurasia) 1. divided by the Ural Mountains

  4. Major landforms • Mountains – highest landform, steep slopes with a peak or summit • Hills - lower than mountains, more rounded • Plateaus – higher than surrounding land, usually has one steep side (table top) • Plains – flat or gently rolling lands 1. Coastal plains have lower elevations 2. Interior plains have higher elevations • Peninsula – piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides (Florida) • Archipelago – a group or chain of islands (Hawaii) • Continental Shelf – underwater extension of a continent

  5. Mountainshighest landform, steep slopes with a peak or summit

  6. Hillslower than mountains, more rounded

  7. Plateaushigher than surrounding land, usually has one steep side (table top)

  8. PlainsFlat or gently rolling lands 1. Coastal plains have lower elevations 2. Interior plains have higher elevations

  9. Peninsula Piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides (Florida)

  10. Archipelago A group or chain of islands (Hawaii)

  11. Valley

  12. Water Saltwater • Most of the Earth’s water is salty. • Oceans 1. Pacific 2. Atlantic 3. Indian 4. Arctic • Seas – bodies of salt water smaller than oceans

  13. Water Continued Freshwater • Lake – body of water surrounded by land • Stream – body of water flowing through land 1. Combine to form rivers 2. Rivers combine to form major waterways • Groundwater – freshwater that lies beneath the surface 1. main source comes from rain and melted snow • 3% of world’s water is fresh • 2% trapped in glaciers • .5% is groundwater • .5% rivers and lakes

  14. Glaciers

  15. Water Continued • Water cycle – regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground back to ocean 1. Begins with evaporation – changing of liquid water to gas

  16. Earth’s Resources

  17. Managing resources • Renewable resources – can replace themselves 1. plants and animals • Nonrenewable – can’t be replaced 1. iron and fossil fuels • Recycle – to reuse but can’t replace • Protecting 1. crop rotation 2. conservation

  18. Distribution of resources • Not distributed evenly • Influences how countries relate to each other • Scarcity has lead to trade 1. Japan – imports raw material sells finished products • Imports – what a country brings in • Exports – what a country sends out

  19. Summary Assignment: Create an Island • Utilizing pages 34-35 of your textbook your task if you choose to accepted it….and you will….is to create your own island. You must include the following; • Title: name your island (should be based around a theme) • At least 20 landforms including the name of each. • Legend with symbols/labels • Latitude/Longitude • Compass Rose • Full Color

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