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Earth's Surface Labelling

Explore land, water and features above Earth’s surface. Read each clue, label the landscape and solve the mini-challenges. Use the word bank where needed: mountain, river, ocean, plain, clouds, sky, trees.

Label the landscape

Use the word bank to identify each numbered feature in the text-based landscape description. Then answer Questions 1–3. The numbered landscape description is: 1, white masses floating above Earth; 2, the space above Earth where the clouds are; 3, high land with steep sides; 4, flowing water going downhill; 5, a broad, mostly flat area; 6, plants with trunks and branches growing together; 7, a large body of salt water.

1.Write the matching word beside each number in the landscape description: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

2.Write the matching word beside each number in the landscape description: 5, 6 and 7.

3.Which two numbered features are bodies of water? Choose both.

3 and 5
4 and 7
1 and 2
5 and 6

Follow the water

Imagine a raindrop landing high on the mountain. In this landscape, it flows downhill from the mountain into the river, and then towards the ocean. Use this route to answer Questions 4–6.

4.Complete the journey: Water can flow downhill from a mountain into a , and then towards the .

5.A river is flowing across a plain. Which statement best describes a plain?

A large area of mostly flat land
A deep body of salt water
A high, steep part of land
A group of clouds

6.True or false: The ocean is a large body of salt water.

TrueFalse

7.True or false: Clouds are landforms that grow from the ground.

TrueFalse

Think like an Earth scientist

Use the landscape description and your observations to explain how features fit together.

8.Name two land features and one water feature from the word bank: mountain, river, ocean, plain, clouds, sky, trees.

9.A hiking group wants to walk across a broad, mostly flat area rather than climb steep slopes. Which type of land feature would suit them? Explain your choice.

10.Design a tiny landscape of your own. Draw and label at least three Earth surface features, including at least one land feature and one water feature.