Landforms and Changes
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Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
mountain
landform
valley
plateau
barrier
island
canyon
earthquake
flood
plain
weathering
erosion
glacier
volcano
wind
water
ice
Landforms and Changes
©2004 Education Inspired
Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
canyon
water
earthquake
volcano
glacier
barrier
island
ice
wind
weathering
mountain
flood
erosion
landform
plateau
plain
valley
Landforms and Changes
©2004 Education Inspired
Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
glacier
landform
barrier
island
canyon
water
flood
valley
plain
ice
earthquake
erosion
volcano
plateau
wind
weathering
mountain
Landforms and Changes
©2004 Education Inspired
Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
earthquake
weathering
canyon
plain
valley
volcano
glacier
ice
landform
plateau
water
flood
mountain
erosion
wind
barrier
island
Landforms and Changes
©2004 Education Inspired
Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
plain
landform
weathering
flood
volcano
canyon
valley
glacier
earthquake
barrier
island
mountain
erosion
water
plateau
wind
ice
Landforms and Changes
©2004 Education Inspired
Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
flood
volcano
barrier
island
wind
glacier
canyon
earthquake
plain
erosion
weathering
plateau
landform
mountain
ice
water
valley
Landforms and Changes
©2004 Education Inspired
Pick up a card and place it face up where all students can see it. All players find the
answer and mark it, but do not say the answer out loud. Put the cards used in a new pile.
Take turns turning over cards until someone covers four in a row. Then the group must
check the cards and the answers covered to make sure the correct answers are marked. If
they are, that player wins the game.
volcano
flood
landform
glacier
erosion
earthquake
weathering
wind
barrier
island
canyon
ice
mountain
plateau
plain
valley
water
Landforms and Changes
For grades 3-5; Groups of 2-6
Place the cards in the middle of the group. Pick
up a card and read the question out loud. All
players find the answer on their own papers and
mark it, but don’t say the answer out loud. Put the
cards that have been read in a new pile. Take
turns reading cards until someone covers four
squares in a row. Then the group must check the
cards and the words covered to make sure the
correct answers are marked. If they are, that
player wins the game.
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Answer Key
1-volcano
2-wind or water
3-earthquake
4-wind or water
5-erosion
6-flood
7-valley
8-glacier
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Answer Key Continued
9-weathering
13-mountain
10-barrier island 14-canyon
11-plain
15-plateau
12-landform
16-ice
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What weathers
landforms? There are
two answers. Cover
only one.
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4
What does not
weather landforms,
but does erode
weathered rock?
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movement of
weathered rock and
soil?
5
What is a huge sheet
of ice?
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What is the shaking of
Earth’s surface caused
by movement of the
crust and mantle?
What is the
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What weathers
landforms? There are
two answers. Cover
only one.
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3
What is a large
amount of water that
covers normally dry
land?
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What is an opening in
Earth’s surface from
which lava flows?
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What is the process
by which rock is worn
down and broken
apart?
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What landform is a
deep valley with very
steep sides?
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14
What landform is a
place on Earth’s
surface that is much
higher than the land
around it?
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13
What landform is a
thin island along a
coast?
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10
What is a natural
shape or feature of
Earth’s surface?
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12
What landform is a flat
area on Earth’s
surface?
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What landform is a
What landform is a
lowland area
flat area higher than
between higher lands,
the land around it?
such as mountains?
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Cut these squares out to use as game pieces, or laminate the game boards & use markers