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Unit 8LANDSCAPES
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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
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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
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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.
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Volcanoes
crater
Ash and gases
Layers of cooled lavaVolcanic cone
lava
vent
Magma chambermagma
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• 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.
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EARTHQUAKES