Post on 27-Jan-2016
What makes up Earth’s surface?
Essential Question
Earth’s surface constantly
changes due to both constructive and destructive processes. You can identify surface features by location, shape, and elevation.
Big Idea
Pies and loaves of bread has a crust.
Our Earth has a crust too!
Crust – the thin, rocky outer layer of Earth that makes up the continents and the ocean floor.
Surface features of the continental crust are often called landforms. They are always changing!
They change because of constructive and destructive processes.
Constructive Processes(Think: construct,
construction)
Constructive processes build up.
Destructive processes (Think: destruction)
Destructive processes tear down.
Which process is constructive?Which process is destructive?
constructive
destructive
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MountainsThese mountains are in North
Georgia.
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HillsThese are hills in
Georgia.
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Mountain Valley
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CanyonGrand Canyon, Arizona
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Plateau
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PlainsGreat Plains, Nebraska
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valleyflood plainbeachesisland
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River Valley
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Flood Plain
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BeachTybee Beach, Georgia
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islandmarshland
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Marshland
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mountain valleyflood plainBeaches
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delta
Delta – low, water land that is formed at the mouth of a
river
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mountainsmountain valley
flood plainbeaches
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river valleydelta
peninsula
Peninsula – a strip of land that extends out into a body of water
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mountainsmountain valley
flood plainbeaches
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river valleydelta
peninsula
Island – an area of land that is completely surrounded by water
Continental Margin
continental shelf - forms the edges of a continent
continental slope - drops sharply; forms sides of continent
continental rise - at the bottom of the slope
Savannah, Georgia
Topographic map: map that shows the shape of surface features and their elevations above sea level.
www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g2_u2/
Check out this interactive map showing the landform legions of the United States. You can then add a landform map to your notebook.