Land Forms

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Land Forms. A MOUNTAIN is the highest kind of land. A HILL is a high place that is smaller than a mountain. Valley. A Valley is low land between mountains or hills. A PLAIN is flat land that spreads out a long way. Bodies of Water. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Land Forms

A MOUNTAIN is the highest kind of land.

A HILL is a high place that is smaller than a mountain.

Valley

• A Valley is low land between mountains or hills.

A PLAIN is flat land that spreads out a long way.

Bodies of Water

• A LAKE is a still body of water with land all around it.

Lake: a still body Lake: a still body of water with land of water with land all around it.all around it.

Mountain: is the Mountain: is the highest kind of highest kind of Land. It has Land. It has sides that slope sides that slope up to a topup to a top..

• A STREAM is a small body of moving water.

Waterfalls

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A RIVER is a large body of moving water.

• Chattahoochee River, Columbus, Georgia

Ocean

• An OCEAN is a large body of salty water.

A Valley is low land between mountains or hills.

Lake Stream

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What do you see?

Mountains

Plain

Hills

Mountains

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Valley

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Volcanoes

• In the image at left you see the red magma (hot, liquid rock) flowing upward and out of the mountain through a tube called a vent.

•When magma comes to the surface it is called lava. •This type of volcano is called a composite because of the different layers made up of older eruptions.

• A magma flow between two layers is called a sill and a flow through layers is called a dike.

During a volcanic explosion hot gases, ashes and cinders can be thrown several thousand feet into the air. After the eruption the top of the mountain falls in on itself and forms a crater.