North America Landforms
A large crack in the Earth Located in northwestern Arizona on the Colorado River, it is about 277 miles long with a width of 18 miles wide and a depth of 5,000 feet deep
What is the Grand Canyon?
A large body of salty water found in the state of Utah.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
The second largest river in the whole world.
What is the Amazon?
Mountain range where the northern border of Italy can be found.
What are the Alps?
One of the major rivers of Europe.
What is the Seine (or Volga, or Rhine, or Thames, or Danube)?
A large mountain range that stretches from Maine to Georgia.
What are Appalachian Mountains?
A large river that starts in Minnesota and empties in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
The large body of water on the west coast of South America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Great Britain and Ireland are an example of this landform.
What is an island?
Water passage between France and England.
What is the English Channel?
Surrounded by water on three sides the state of Florida is this landform.
What is a peninsula?
The large body of water on the eastern edge of the US. It separates North America from Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A large mountain range on the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
Just like Florida, the countries of Portugal and Spain make this kind of landform.
What is a peninsula?
Beautiful body of water between Europe and Africa.
What is the Mediteranean Sea?
Famous ones include Mt. St. Helen, Yellowstone, and all over parts of Hawaii. Be careful they are hot!
What is a volcano?
The largest of the Great Lakes.
What is Lake Superior?
Body of water that borders South America to the North.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
Large mountain range in Russia. These mountains separate Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural mountains?
A very small water passage between Spain and Africa. It links the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
The tallest mountain peak in North America.
What is Denali (or Mt. McKinley)?
These massive bodies of ice move slowly over the Earth. They can be found in Alaska, Montana, Washington and Oregon.
What is a glacier?
An island to the west of South America. There are dozens of huge stone head statues.
What is Easter Island?
Norway and Sweden can be found on this peninsula in the most northern region of Europe.
What is the Scandanavian Peninsula?
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland. Many can be found in Norway.
What is a fjord?