Chapter 1,Section 4Pages 39-42Landforms and Waterways
•Mountains: towers of rock formed bythe collision of the earth’s tectonicplates or by volcanoes
•World’s tallest mountain: Mount Everest
•It is located in the Himalaya mountains in Asia
•Plains: low-lyingstretches of flat land;usually stretch fromthe middle of acontinent to the coast
•Plateau: flat, but high elevation
•Valley: lay between mountains and hills;long stretch of land lower than the land oneither side
•Canyons: steep-sided lowlands; rivers havecut through a plateau
Another example of a canyon
Trenches: deep valleys in the ocean floor;lowest spots in the earth’s crust
Why do people decide to live in aparticular area?
•Climate: Temp. andRainfall
•Availability ofResources:freshwater, growfood, catch fish, raiseanimals
Bodies of Water
•70 % of earth’s surface is water; mostly saltwater
•Strait: narrow body of water between two bodies ofwater
•Channel: widerpassage than a strait
•The point at which a river originates/begins is called itssource; usually high in the mountains
•The mouth of a river is where it empties intoanother body of water
Another example of a mouth of ariver
