1. Essential Question

2.   Earth’s surface constantly changes due to both constructive and destructive processes. You can identify surface features by location, shape, and elevation. Big Idea

3. Pies and loaves of bread has a crust. Our Earth has a crust too!

4. Crust – the thin, rocky outer layer of Earth that makes up the continents and the ocean floor.

5. Surface features of the continental crust are often called landforms. They are always changing! They change because of constructive and destructive processes.

6. Constructive Processes (Think: construct, construction) Constructive processes build up. Destructive processes (Think: destruction) Destructive processes tear down.

7. Which process is constructive? Which process is destructive? constructive destructive

8. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Mountains These mountains are in North Georgia.

9. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain Beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Hills These are hills in Georgia.

10. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain Beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Mountain Valley

11. Landforms canyons plains plateaus mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches island peninsula marshland hills river valley delta Canyon Grand Canyon, Arizona

12. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Plateau

13. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain Beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Plains Great Plains, Nebraska

14. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches island marshland hills river valley delta River Valley

15. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain Beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Flood Plain

16. Landforms canyons plains plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Beach Tybee Beach, Georgia

17. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain Beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Marshland

18. Landforms canyons plains Plateaus peninsula mountains mountain valley flood plain Beaches island marshland hills river valley delta Delta – low, water land that is formed at the mouth of a river

19. Landforms canyons plains plateaus mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches marshland island hills river valley delta peninsula Peninsula – a strip of land that extends out into a body of water

20. Landforms canyons plains plateaus mountains mountain valley flood plain beaches marshland island hills river valley delta peninsula Island – an area of land that is completely surrounded by water

21. 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

22. Savannah, Georgia Topographic map: map that shows the shape of surface features and their elevations above sea level.

24. www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/ap plications/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.