5th Grade Landforms Vocabulary
Landforms are natural features and determine an area’s topography. Landforms undergo a series of changes during their formation, which we have covered in our previous classes. Can you identify the changes as described in the questions below? Give a try and see what you have already forgotten about landforms. All the best!
- 1.The force that pulls things toward the Earth.
- A.
Gravity
- B.
Weathering
- C.
Deposition
- 2.The process of breaking down rock.
- A.
Gravity
- B.
Weathering
- C.
Deposition
- 3.The process of adding sand or soil to a new location.
- A.
Gravity
- B.
Weathering
- C.
Deposition
- 4.Rain that lands on top of a mountain, travels down the mountain to lower ground, moving over and through the rock and soil, and joins larger bodies of water or forms streams.
- A.
Drainage Basin
- B.
Runoff
- C.
Flood
- 5.Material which has separated and settled out from the medium--wind, water, or ice---which originally carried it.
- A.
Sediment
- B.
Deposition
- C.
Levee
- 6.One of the features that makes up the Earth's surface, such as a plain, mountain, or valley.
- A.
Alluvial Fan
- B.
Contour Lines
- C.
Landforms
- 7.The process of natural forces moving soil and small rocks from one place to another.
- A.
Erosion
- B.
Deposition
- C.
Sediment
- 8.Moving Air
- A.
Valley
- B.
Wind
- C.
Interval
- 9.A hill or ridge of wind-blown sand.
- A.
Channel
- B.
Levee
- C.
Dune
- 10.A hedge, fence, or row of trees serving to lessen or break the force of the wind.
- A.
Alluvial fan
- B.
Windbreak
- C.
Levee
- 11.A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation.
- A.
Waterfall
- B.
Canyon
- C.
Glacier
- 12.A long depression in Earth's surface that usually contains a river.
- A.
Canyon
- B.
Valley
- C.
Drainage Basin
- 13.A deep narrow valley with steep sides.
- A.
Canyon
- B.
Valley
- C.
Interval
- 14.A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill.
- A.
Canyon
- B.
Mountain
- C.
Plateau
- 15.A looping change of direction in a river or stream.
- A.
Delta
- B.
Sediment
- C.
Meander
- 16.Flat land near a river formed by deposition during floods.
- A.
Flood Plain
- B.
Delta
- C.
Interval
- 17.A low, flat piece of land at or near the mouth of a river.
- A.
River's Source
- B.
Alluvial Fan
- C.
Delta
- 18.Land with relatively low relief that is flat or gently rolling.
- A.
Plain
- B.
Plateau
- C.
Landforms
- 19.Where a river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area or another river.
- A.
River's Source
- B.
River's Mouth
- C.
Delta
- 20.It is the point where the river starts.
- A.
River's Mouth
- B.
River's Source
- C.
Delta
- 21.A river or stream that does not reach the ocean.
- A.
Runoff
- B.
Drainage Basin
- C.
Tributaries
- 22.A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.
- A.
Deflation
- B.
Basin
- C.
Drainage Basin
- 23.An extent or area of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean.
- A.
Drainage Basin
- B.
Basin
- C.
Tributaries
- 24.The degree of change in elevation over a length of land.
- A.
Contour Lines
- B.
Slope
- C.
Interval
- 25.An object's height above a fixed reference point.
- A.
Elevation
- B.
Interval
- C.
Slope
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