Earth's Land

• Land can be smooth, rocky, or flat
• Land can be high or low
• Earth's land has many shapes, called landforms
• Mountains-pointed tops, rocky, steep sides

• Valley-low land between mountains or hills

• Plain-flat and wide land

 

• Hills-like small, round mountains

 

• A globe is like a ball that shows earth's continents (land) and oceans

 

• A map is like a globe but it is flat

 

• On a map and globe, low land is shown with green, high land with brown, and water with blue
• An island is small land with water on all sides
• The earth has three parts, or layers (Crust, Mantle, Core)

 

• Crust-where plants and animals live, thin layer
• Mantle-very hot "middle" layer
• Core-very hot, part solid like rock, part liquid like water