Do You Know

Physical Features are the shapes that the land and water make on the surface of the Earth.

Do physical features affect the way people live?

To understand physical features, we first need to understand

sea level.

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Sea level is the level of the land where it meets the ocean.

What is the name of the highest physical feature on Earth? _____________Mountains

To be a mountain, it must rise 1,000 feet above the land around it.

If it is sloping land but not a mountain, what is it?

A hill, of course!

It is sloping, uneven land not as

high as a mountain.

A plateau is also elevated land.

It is a flat land surface rising sharply above its surroundings.

A small plateau is a mesaSmaller and taller =

butte

Volcano!

This is a …

Are they active, dormant, or extinct?

Between hills and mountains there may be a stretch of low land called a valley.

What might you find in a valley?

A valley with steep, narrow sides is called a __________.

What is often found at the bottom of a canyon?

A river

Canyon

What is that white stuff?Glaciers!They are slow moving sheets of ice found in cold places.

What happens to the ice when it gets to the

bottom?

And here we have wide, open, flat

_____________.PlainsWhere is the horizon?

This water is called a _____;it is ________ water that cuts its path through land.

River fresh

Sometimes, at the mouth of a river, sediment collects and makes a landform called a ______________.Delta

What famous city was built on the Mississippi delta ?

New Orleans

An inland (surrounded by land) body of water is called a ____________. What kind of water is it usually?

Lake

What makes a lake?

Fresh

A piece of land completely surrounded by water is called a (an) ______________.Island

Are all islands tropical like the one above?

How can people get to islands today?

A piece of land surrounded on 3 sides by water is a peninsula

A peninsula stays connected to the mainland.

Much of Florida is a peninsula.

A narrow piece of land connecting two larger pieces of land is an isthmus.

Isthmus of Corinth (Greece)

Isthmus of Panama

A strait is a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.

The Strait of Gibraltar

When water scoops into the coastline it creates a ______. This makes a good ________ for boats.

Bayharbor

What occurs when there is VERY LITTLE water?

Desert!

Not all deserts are sandy deserts…

Sand dunes are common in sandy deserts.

But where there is water, there is an oasis!

Desert

Formations