Name: ____________________
North American Landforms
Introduce and explore types of landforms formed by erosional and/or depositional forces.
NOTE Bold Items - are background information.
Italicized Items - ask you to manipulate the map in some way.
Questions (paraphrased or restated as part of your answer) and Answers should be recorded in
your journals.
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Map URL: http://esriurl.com/earthgeoinquiry5
Rough, rugged, or smooth, what landforms cover North America’s surface?
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Click Modify Map, and then click the Contents button.
Turn on the Landform Marker layer; you will now see Edit at the top.
Click the Edit button, and then click Landuse Marker.
Click the map to ‘sketch’ around all similar continuous regions, based solely on their appearance (if necessary, zoom in to see more detail).
1. How many unique regions did you choose?
2. Describe what made each region (in #1) unique. Why did you ‘sketch’ around that region?
- Click the Edit button to stop drawing; you will then see the Contents pane.
- Turn off the World Shaded Relief layer..
Is there more to landforms than texture?
- Turn on the North American Landforms layer
- Click the Basemap button, and then click Topographic.
3. Which areas did you miss (when you ‘sketched’ them before #1)?
4. Which color is used to show the plains?
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Click several places across the plains.
5. Are all plains considered the same?
6. How would the plains along the Gulf Coast be separated from the mid-continent plains?
7. What evidence would you use to support this idea?
What’s elevation got to do with it?
- Click the About this Map button.
- Click the Open Presentation link, and view the presentation in a new tab. (The map is still
fully explorable if you want to zoom in or out or pan while in the presentation mode).
8. Group the landforms that are demonstrated in the presentation in a system or format that
makes sense to you.
- Exit out of the current tab that has the presentation running to explore the online map further.
Would a bay by any other name…sound the same?
- Use the Bookmarks to write down and differentiate similar types of landforms.
9. Coastal Features.
10. Freshwater regions.
11. Ocean bodies.
12. River-formed Landforms.
13. Higher elevation terms.
14. Large ice features.
What landforms do you have in your area?
- Search for two of any of the landforms mentioned in the presentation in your area. You can
use the Find Address or Place search tool.
15. Explain what those landforms are and how they differ from similar terms for the above features.