Bodies of Water
A large area of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
The land along the edge of a body of water.
What is a beach?
A landform that rises high above the Earth's surface.
The low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
A place where water flows over a cliff.
What is a waterfall?
A major body of water that covers 70% of the earth.
What is an ocean?
Where a body of water meets land.
What is a coast?
A natural elevation of the Earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
What is a hill?
A deep valley with high, steep sides.
What is a canyon?
A very small area of water that is surrounded by land.
What is a pond?
An area of wet, soggy land with many pools of water.
What is a swamp?
An area of land that is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
An opening in the earth's crust from which lava flows.
What is a volcano?
A wide, flat area of land.
What is a plain?
A thin waterway that allows water to flow into a lake or ocean.
What is a river?
A narrow body of water off a larger body of water.
What is an inlet?
A strip of land that has water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
An area of flat land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
An area that gets very little precipitation.
What is a desert?
An area of water that is mostly surrounded by land.
What is a bay?
A channel of water that connects two large areas of water.
What is a strait?
A mass of land that forms at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
A mound of sand.
What is a dune?
A narrow strip of land with water on both sides that connects two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
A shallow body of water that is usually next to a larger body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A "creature" once resided from here.
What is a lagoon?