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Landforms: the shapes of the land

  • Grade 3
  • Science
  • 56 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-SC-11

One landscape builds up step by step. A mountain with a glacier, a hill, a valley and a plateau stand on a plain, and each is named and labelled in turn. A river then flows out of the valley to the sea, clears to show its riverbed, and drops mud and sand that build a delta, ending on the recap that landforms are the shapes of the land.

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The question this lesson answers

What shapes can the land around us have?

The shapes of the land are called landforms.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What shapes can the land around us have?

The shapes of the land are called landforms.

A mountain is very high land, often with steep sides.

A glacier is a huge mass of ice that moves very slowly.

A hill is lower than a mountain, often with a rounded top.

A valley is low land between hills or mountains.

A plateau is high land with a flat top.

This river flows out of the valley and down to the sea.

The ground at the bottom of a river is called the riverbed.

Where a river meets the sea, it can drop mud and sand.

Over many years, the mud and sand build flat land called a delta.

Landforms are the shapes of the land.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

Science, Earth science: major local landformsBC3-SC-11

Next: Erosion and Deposition: How Wind, Water and Ice Move Land

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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