Students explore the formation of landforms.

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Entry Task:
How do you think
landforms were created on
Earth’s surface?

2. Interactive Notebook:
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•Title = Landforms
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Place
Physical Characteristics
• What forces shape the land?
• What are the Earth’s major
landforms?

4. How landforms are created:
• Slow Changes
• Rapid Changes
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5. •What do you already
know about the theory
of plate tectonics?
–Think back to science class!
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Pangaea:
The Supercontinent
• Geographers
theorize that
millions of years
ago the Earth had
only one huge
landmass, which
they call Pangaea.

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• They believe that about 200 million years
ago, some force made Pangaea split into
several pieces and begin to move apart,
forming separate continents.

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• The theory of
plate tectonics
explains why the
continents
separated.
• Continents are
part of plates
that shift over
time.

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The Movement of the
Continents
When geographers first began to study world
maps, they realized that the continents look
like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

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• These 7 continents are
extremely diverse places.
• Each continents has different
physical characteristics and
human characteristics.

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Plate Tectonics:
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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15. Google Classroom:
• Read the article called “Formation
of Landforms.”
• Answer the questions about the
article.
• Work independently for first half,
then in small groups!
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16. Landform Games:
• Matching Game
• Landforms Pictionary
–Use whiteboards
–With a partner, take turns drawing a
landform
–The other partner tries to guess the
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