Land and Water of Missouri and Beyond
Timeline
- Lesson 5A: 2 hours
- Lesson 5B: 2.5 hours
- Unit 5 Review
- Summative Assessment: 10 minutes
- Putting It All Together: 1 hour
Essential Statements
- I can identify and list landforms in Missouri and the world. (Lesson 5A)
- I can construct and compare landforms in Missouri and the world. (Lesson 5A)
- I can investigate where water is found in Missouri and the world and if it is a liquid or solid. (Lesson 5B)
Essential Questions
- How do landforms shape Missouri and the world?
- Where and in what forms does water exist on Earth?
Unit
5
Vocabulary
- Bay — a small part of ocean surrounded on many sides by land (Lesson 5A)
- Canyon — a deep valley with steep sides usually formed by a river (Lesson 5A)
- Cave — hollow place under the ground (Lesson 5A)
- Climate — the average weather condition of a particular place over a period of many years (Lesson 5A/5B)
- Desert — very dry place that gets little rain (Lesson 5A)
- Frozen water — water that is frozen solid (Lesson 5B)
- Glacier — large area of thick ice that remains frozen from year to year (Lesson 5A)
- Gulf — body of ocean surrounded by land on three sides (Lesson 5A)
- Hill — raised land smaller than a mountain (Lesson 5A)
- Island — land completely surrounded by water (Lesson 5A)
- Lake — large body of water surrounded by land and not part of an ocean (Lesson 5A/5B)
- Landforms — natural features of the Earth’s surface (Lesson 5A/5B)
- Liquid — a type of matter that takes the shape of its container (Lesson 5B)
- Mountain — landform that rises high above its surroundings (Lesson 5A)
- Ocean — a huge body of salt water covering most of the Earth (Lesson 5A/5B)
- Peninsula — piece of land surrounded by water on three sides (Lesson 5A)
- Plains — large area of flat land with few trees (Lesson 5A)
- Plateau — large area of mostly flat land that is raised higher than land around it (Lesson 5A)
- Polar ice caps — dome-shaped sheets of ice found near the north and south poles (Lesson 5B)
- Pond — small body of water surrounded by land (Lesson 5A/5B)
- River — a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill (Lesson 5A/5B)
- Solid — a type of matter that keeps its shape (Lesson 5B)
- Stream — a flowing body of water smaller than a river (Lesson 5A/5B)
- Valley — area of low land between two mountains or hills (Lesson 5A)
- Volcano — opening in the Earth’s crust where lava or ash escape (Lesson 5A)
- Wetlands — area of land covered by shallow water or that has soils that are flooded with water, either sometimes or all the time (Lesson 5A/5B)