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Tennessee LandformsThere are many landforms in Tennessee.

Landforms can affect the way we live and play. Let’s take a tour of Tennessee Landforms

K-5.9.1 Identify the earth's major geological features.          Recognize the earth's major geological features (e.g., continents, oceans, lakes).

Tennessee LandformsTennessee’s seven natural regions are:

Blue Ridge (Unaka) Mountains

The Great Valley

Cumberland Plateau

Highland Rim

Nashville Basin

Gulf Coastal Plain

Mississippi Flood Plain

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Landforms Vocabularylandforms bodies of waterriverlakeoceanmountainvalley

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The Appalachian Mountains is the

largest wilderness area in the Eastern

United States

MountainsMountainsA mountain is the highest kind of land.

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Plateau

• Fall Creek Falls State Park in Pikeville, TN is located on the Cumberland Plateau.

This plateau shows how it really is flat like a table on top!

A flat area of land that is higher than the land around it

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Plain• Plains are

broad, nearly level stretches of land that have no great changes in elevation.

• Plains are generally lower than the land around them.

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River

The Mississippi River forms the western border of Tennessee.

The Tennessee River starts in Knoxville, TN

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Lake

An inland body of fresh or salt water

Reelfoot Lake is located in Dyersburg, TN

Reelfoot Lake was formed when a massive earthquake struck the area!

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Bluff

A high bank with a broad, precipitous and sometimes rounded cliff face overlooking a plain or body of water.

Tennessee Attractions

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References• http://www.ihms.mb.ca/Student%20Projects/Student%20projects%2

02002-2003/Grade%204%20Landforms/landforms.htm 4th graders put together several landforms with good pictures.

• http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/land/landform/landform.html

• http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/nwep7c.htm A lake of great information.

• http://www.tennesseelakeinfo.com/ Information about TN lakes.

• http://www.reelfootareachamber.com/tourism/index.html History of Reelfoot Lake.

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Activities• Use http://earth.google.com/ to locate the landforms you

learned.• http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/typesofland/

typesofland.html Click on the landform to learn more about it.

• http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/activities/landformations/index.shtm Can you find the landforms?

• http://www.quia.com/mc/512.html • http://www.quia.com/cc/512.html • http://www.quia.com/custom/512sear.html Play landform

games: matching, concentration, or word search