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Geography · Grades 4–7

Landforms and physical processes

A landform is a feature; a process helps create or change it.

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Understand the idea

Distinguish shape and process

A landform is a feature; a process helps create or change it.

Trace material

Weathering breaks material down; erosion transports it; deposition leaves it elsewhere.

Use evidence over appearance

A single image may not establish how a feature formed.

Worked examples

Which process moves broken rock from one place to another?

Erosion involves transport.

erosion

Sediment settling when water slows is

Material is deposited rather than carried onward.

deposition

Try it yourself

  1. A river's source is

    1. where the river begins
    2. the same as its mouth
    3. the deepest ocean trench
    4. every point where it floods

  2. A river's mouth is

    1. every small tributary
    2. always the highest mountain
    3. where it enters another body of water
    4. the river's northernmost point

  3. Explain the difference between weathering and erosion.

  4. Which feature is commonly described as low land between higher areas?

    1. a summit
    2. a plateau
    3. a valley
    4. a ridge

Answers and marking notes

Answers and marking notes
  1. where the river begins

    Source names the starting area of the river.

  2. where it enters another body of water

    A mouth is an outlet, not necessarily to an ocean.

  3. Weathering breaks rock down in place; erosion moves the material.

    Accept examples that preserve the distinction.

  4. a valley

    A valley lies between surrounding higher land.

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