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A large land mass surrounded by oceans or other land
Contiennt
A physical feature of the land
Landforms
Ex of land forms include mountains
Plains
Valleys and canyons are ex of landforms shaped by
Water
Mounds called form where wind blows sand
Sand dunes
The large sections that make up earth’s crust and upper mantle
Plates
When plates slowly ram into each other they can form
Folds
A long narrow crack in earth’s crust is
Faults
Tall landforms caused by folding or faulting
Mountain
If the rock in earth’s crust suddenly shakes
Earthquake
The slow process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces
Weathering
A rock is broken apart by weathering without changing the type of rock
Physical
If a rock has iron air and water can react with iron
Chemical
The weathering that removes a rock
Erosion
Erosion can be caused by
Glacier wind moving water and gravity