Skip to content
PlayOwl

Geography · Grade 6

Physical Systems and Landforms

Learners discover the two sets of forces that shape Earth's surface: moving tectonic plates that build mountains, volcanoes and trenches, and weathering, erosion and deposition that wear the land down and rebuild it elsewhere. They follow a river from source to mouth, then read maps and elevation profiles to explain real landscapes from Iceland to the Himalaya and the Andes.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 95 minutes
  • Landforms check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, pin a map, pick map regions and match pairs
Try it now (no account) One of the five free starter courses Open in PlayOwl

What learners will discover

  • Describe Earth's layers and explain how plates moving apart, together or past each other create ridges, rift valleys, mountains, volcanoes and trenches.
  • Explain weathering, erosion and deposition, and identify whether water, ice, wind or waves shaped a landform.
  • Trace a river from source to mouth and explain the landforms and gradient changes along its course.
  • Locate major landforms on a world map and use maps and elevation profiles to explain a landscape.

Lessons

  1. Earth's moving plates 7 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  2. Weathering, erosion and deposition 5 steps3 practiceabout 22 min
  3. A river from source to mouth 7 steps5 practiceabout 24 min
  4. Reading a landscape with maps and data 6 steps3 practiceabout 18 min
  5. Landforms check 10 questions at the end

Keep exploring

Games to practice with

  • Globe ExplorerSpin a real 3D globe, flip to the flat map, and find continents, oceans and countries.
  • Pin the PlanetDrag the pin onto wonders, cities and exact latitude and longitude points.
  • Route PlannerFind the shortest way around town, dodge closed roads, and measure trips with a scale bar.

More 6th grade geography

Guide for grown-ups