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Landforms

Landforms
Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 5 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   3.89

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    spaceship, space, alien, farmland, flown, earth, between, swamp, plateau, part, shaving, choose, kinds, buffalo, large, middle
     content words:    Mount Everest, Grand Canyon, United States, Great Plains, Sahara Desert

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Landforms
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     Space aliens have just discovered earth! They are almost here! It's a nice sunny day, so they are looking out the windows of their spaceship to see what the earth looks like. What do they see first?
 
2     The first things that they would probably see are the shapes that make up the earth: the landforms and waterways. Large landforms like mountains and valleys can be seen from a long way up. Maybe you've seen some of them on pictures taken from a real spaceship flown by earth astronauts.
 
3     One good way to learn about the earth's landforms is to make a model of each one. You could use clay or other materials. One class made models from shaving cream!

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