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A large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually with a peak
What is a mountain?
A low area between hills or mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Can be V-shaped or U-shaped.
What is a valley?
A natural stream of water flowing through a channel.
What is a river?
The pile of earth materials that results from their rapid movement down a slope.
What is a landslide?
What is a mesa?
A low area of Earth's surface that is often formed of flat-lying sediments.
What is a plain?
A gently sloping shore next to a body of water washed by waves or tides.
What is a beach?
A ridge, mount or hill of sand deposited by wind.
What is a sand dune?
A nearly level uplifted area composed of horizontal layers of rock.
What is a plateau?
A V-shaped valley with steep sides eroded by a stream.
What is a canyon?
A long ridge of sand built up by river currents or ocean waves in shallow water.
What is a sandbar?
A break in Earth's surface along which movement has occurred.
What is a fault?
A hill with steep sides and a small flat top, smaller than a mesa.
A bowl-shaped depression made by an explosion at the mouth of a volcano or the impact of a meteorite.
What is a crater?
A large mass of ice moving slowly over land.
What is a glacier?
A formation where weak rocks erode away, leaving oddly shaped resistant rocks.
What is a hoodoo?
A high, narrow piece of rock.
What is a pinnacle?
What is a caldera?
An often fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at mouth of a stream or river.
What is a delta?
A mound or ridge of unsorted rocks and soil carried and deposited by a glacier.
What is a moraine?