Landforms
What is a beach?
A shore of a body of water, covered by sand, gravel, or rock fragments.
What is a peninsula?
Land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is an island?
Area of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What does "formed by a flowing river" mean?
It describes a canyon.
What is a triangle-shaped landform made from sand and mud?
A delta.
Formed by a flowing river; cut deep into the earth with tall, steep sides.
What is an isthmus?
A narrow strip of land that separates two bodies of water and connects two areas of land.
What is a plain?
Flat land covered in grass.
What is the tallest landform?
A mountain.
A narrow body of water. that connects two larger bodies of water.
A straight
What is a cave?
A large hollow place in the side of a hill, cliff, or underground.
What is a mountain?
The tallest landform.
What is a sand dune?
Hills of sand by the ocean or desert.
a place that gets very little rain each year.
A desert
A large body of water partly surrounded by land and is connected to the ocean.
A bay
What is a cliff?
A very steep face of rock.
What is a plateau?
Raised, flat land with steep slopes on the sides.
What is a volcano?
Tall landform that hot lava can come out of.
What is a low area between mountains?
A valley.
A body of water that starts at the top of a high cliff.
A waterfall
what is a delta?
A piece of land made by sand and mud deposits shaped like a triangle.
What is a valley?
A low area in the middle of two mountains.
What is a hill?
A raised and rounded bit of land, not as high as a mountain.
Asmall area of water, smaller than a lake. It has freshwater.
A pond.
What is a flat land covered in grass?
A plain.