Unit 8LANDSCAPES

Flat landscape: There are no hills or mountains.• Plain: areas on low land.• Plateau: is higher than the land around it.

Mountain landscape• Mountain ranges• Summit• Slope• Foot• Valley: an area of low land between hills or

mountains.

Coastal landscape: wherethe land meets the sea.• Bay• Beach: low, flat land next to the sea.• Cliff: high walls of rock• Cape

Landforms

• Hill .- area of high land, but they are lower than mountains. It’s often

used for farming.

• Valley.- low land between hills or mountains.

• Gorge.- deep, narrow valley with steep sides.

• Plateau .- wide areas of low flat land.

• Plain.- wide area of low, flat land.

plateau

gorgevalley

Fold mountains

Block mountains

There are see curves in the layers of rocks due to the folding.

There is a cut and discontinuity in the layers, not a continuous curve.

Volcanoes

crater

Ash and gases

Layers of cooled lavaVolcanic cone

lava

vent

Magma chambermagma

• Earthquakes occur at faults.

• Faults are the edges of tectonic plates.

• Seismograph is a machine to monitor movements inside the

Earth. It detects the focus and the strength of the

earthquake.

• Tsunamis are earthquakes under the ocean.

EARTHQUAKES