Landforms on Earth

With a partner make a list of landforms found on the earth.

Plateaus

http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/face.htm

Mountain

http://www.moorewallpaper.com/Mountains-18.htm

Valley

http://www2.bcinternet.net/~newman/images/Twin-Valleys-today.jpg

Plains

Hills

http://www.fredmiranda.com/hosting-data/500/62479507-Rolling-Hills.jpg

Creek

http://itu107.ut.tu-berlin.de/wrh/persons/gunkel/Erosion.jpg

Rocks

http://www.pausingtoremember.net/erosion2.jpg

Stalactite

http://www.flickr.com/photos/colmc/261642994/in/set-72157594314373133/

Glacier

http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~whtsai/USA_West/Daily%20Webpages/11%20Quick%20Tour/09%20Jackson%20Glacier%20in%20Glacier%20Nat'l%20Park%20in%20Montana%20(Aug.%203).jpg

Canyon

http://www.olwm.com/promotion-includes/grand-canyon/images/grand-canyon-national-park-picture-24.jpg

Landforms on Earth

• Are all Earth’s landforms the same? Why? Why not?

• What are some of the features that you see when you look at the pictures?

• Do you think that these landforms have always been the same?

• Do you think that changes in these landforms occurred quickly or did they take a long time to be formed?

Landforms on Earth• How will these landforms look:

– two days from now? – one year from now? – ten years from now? – one hundred years from now? – one thousand years from now?

• Was there a force/action that caused these landforms to change?

• Do you think that water and wind may have created some of these landforms?

• How could we measure these changes?