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Landforms What are the shapes the land takes and why? WG.4B Describe different landforms and the physical processes that cause their development [SUPPORTING STANDARD] YSLETA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT SOCIAL STUDIES INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM

Which words are you familiar with, and which do you not yet know? Mountains Rift Valleys Erosion Tectonic Forces Delta Plateau Weathering Landform Formed http://www.tutorvista.com/content/biology/biology-i/environment/biosphere.php

Converging of tectonic plates What makes a MOUNTAIN? http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/l/lithosphere.htm Converging of tectonic plates

Converging of tectonic plates What makes a MOUNTAIN? Continent to Continent Oceanic to Continent http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/l/lithosphere.htm Converging of tectonic plates

Weathering and Erosion What makes a PLATEAU? http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/l/lithosphere.htm Weathering and Erosion

What makes a TRANSFORM FAULT? http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/l/lithosphere.htm Diverging and converging that effects the surface

What makes a RIFT VALLEY? http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/rift_valley.html DIVERGING that effects the lithosphere