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  • A flat-topped highland
    Plateau
  • An area of low land between hills or mountains.
    Valley
  • It means how wet, dry, hot or cold the air is at a particular time
    Weather
  • Using the energy of running water to produce electricity.
    Hydroelectricity power
  • a very thick, black, sticky liquid made from coal that becomes hard when it cools and that is used especially for road surfaces
    Sticky tar
  • the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
    Mantle
  • The breaking up of rocks by heat, cold, ice and rainwater.
    Weathering
  • the outer layer of the Earth
    Earth’s crust
  • The line on a mountain above which it is so cold that snow covers the ground, even in summer.
    Snow line
  • A mountain that is formed by folds or ridges or the Earth’s crust that are pushed up by movements of the Earth’s plates.
    Fold mountain
  • Land which has a rich soil that produces good crops.
    Fertile
  • the central part of the Earth
    Core
  • A series of mountain ranges across Asia.
    Himalayas
  • Facing away from the wind.
    Leeward
  • The sheltered side of a mountain where there is less rainfall than on the other, windward, side
    Rain shadow
  • A channel or pipe carrying of surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.
    Drain
  • A large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry.
    Flooding
  • The pieces of rock that collect at the bottom of a steep mountain slope.
    Scree
  • One of a series of level areas on a slope or hillside that looks like a huge step.
    Terraces
  • Large, slowly-moving rivers of ice.
    Glaciers
  • A large wall or bank built to hold back water and to raise its level. (e.g. A large lake called a reservoir is often formed behind Dam.)
    Dam
  • The average weather in a region of the Earth throughout the year.
    Climate
  • molten rock material within the earth from which igneous rock results by cooling
    Magma
  • Cracks in the Earth’s crust
    Faults
  • Buses, cars, lorries, trains and other ways of taking people or goods from one place to another.
    Transport
  • An imaginary line around the centre of the Earth.
    Equator
  • the remains of seashells (plants or animals) that existed in a past and that has been excavated from the soil
    Fossilized seashells
  • The side that faces the wind.
    Windward
  • The pointed tops of a mountain.
    Peaks
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