The document discusses different landforms and the natural processes that create them. It provides examples of landforms like mountains and asks questions to test understanding of concepts like erosion, deposition, and mass movement. Natural forces like glaciers, rain, and volcanoes can cause sudden landform changes by eroding and transporting sediment. The Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon through erosion over millions of years. Dams regulate water flow while glaciers form where more snow falls than melts. Floodplains are rich farm areas but dangerous to live in due to periodic flooding from rivers. Mudflows and creep slowly move soil downhill through gravity. Volcanic eruptions can deposit new landforms underwater. River channels form landforms through erosion

1. W hat Pro ce sse s
Change Landfo rm s?

2. What are physical features on
Earth’s surface?

4. Which is an example of a
landform?
• House
• Mountain
• Lawn
• skyscraper

6. moving sediment from one place
to another

8. Breaking rocks into silt, sand,
clay, and sediment

10. downhill movement of rock and
soil because of gravity

12. dropping sediment in a new
location

14. Which natural forces can cause a
sudden change?
• Glaciers
• Rain
• Volcanic eruptions
• Steady winds

16. Arizona’s Grand Canyon was
carved by the action of the
______.
• Hudson river
• Mississippi River
• Potomic River
• Colorado River

18. A _____ is a man-made structure
that regulates the flow of water.

20. A ____ is a thick sheet of ice,
formed in areas where more
snow falls during winter than
melts during the summer.

22. _______ ________ are rich agricultural
areas, but are dangerous places for
people to live because of periodic
flooding.

24. ____ move wet soil quickly.

26. ______ is a mass movement
where soil moves slowly
downhill because of gravity. The
changes of landforms happen so
slowly that they’re hard to
observe directly.

28. A _____ is a large hole in the
ground that opens suddenly. It
forms after rock under the
surface has dissolved or become
weak.

30. What kind of landform can be
formed when a glacier begins
melting back and deposits the
sediments it has been
carrying with it?

32. A _______ is mass movement
that moves dry rock and soil
downhill quickly.

34. What kind of landform can be
formed by deposition of
sediment from an
underwater volcano?

36. What kind of landform can
be formed by the eroding
force of a river channel?