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Landforms
Brooke Ard
5th Grade
Griggs Road Elementary
Weathering Vocabulary
• Chemical Weathering - the erosion or disintegration
of rocks, building materials, etc., caused by
chemical reactions
• Dissolve - become or cause to become
incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.
• Physical Weathering - breaking down of the earth's
surface through the process of natural or physical
means
• Negative – harmful or bad
• Sediments - Solid fragments of inorganic or organic
material that come from the weathering of rock and
are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice.
Weathering Vocabulary
(cont.)
• Gravity - the force that attracts a body toward the
center of the earth
• Weathering - processes that break down rocks at or
near the surface of the earth.
Erosion Vocabulary
• Destructive Forces - Processes that destroy
landforms
• Erosion - movement of sediments and soil by wind,
water, ice, and gravity
• Flood - When large amount of water covers land
that is usually dry.
• Landslide - mass movements of land due to gravity.
• Tsunami - A very large ocean wave caused by an
underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Deposition Vocabulary
• Construction - the building of something
• Constructive Forces - Processes that create
landforms
• Deposition - dropping, or depositing, of sediments
by water, wind, or ice.
• Positive - good or useful
Other Important
Vocabulary
• Agriculture - cultivating soil, producing crops, and
raising livestock; farming
• Landform - a natural feature of the earth's surface
• Conservation - the action of conserving something
• Fossil Fuel - a natural fuel such as coal or gas,
formed in the geological past from the remains of
living organisms.
• Mining - the process or industry of obtaining coal or
other minerals from a mine.
• Natural Resources - materials or substances such as
minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur
in nature and can be used for economic gain