Landforms Vocab Word
The low-lying areas between mountains or hills.
What are Valleys?
This is the definition for mountain.
What the highest landform on earth that is usually found to be wide at the bottom and narrow a the top with steep rocky sides?
Thick ice that covers a large area of land.
What is glacier?
The definition for lake.
What is a body of water completely surrounded by land?
People travel north to ski down these landforms.
What are mountains?
Areas of flat land.
What are Plains?
This is the definition for island.
What is a piece of land that is surrounded by water on all sides?
A large area of an ocean or sea that is partially surrounded by land.
What is a gulf?
The definition for ocean.
What is a large body of water made up of salt water?
This ocean lies east of (CT, MA, and RI).
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
An area of raised land that is flat on top.
What is a Plateau?
What is huge hills of sand formed by wind in the desert?
Small body of water surrounded by land on all sides but is smaller than a lake.
What is a pond?
The definition for waterfall.
What is water falling from a height?
This ocean lies west of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Steep cliffs with a valley running between them.
What are canyons?
The definition for peninsula.
What is a piece of land sounded by water on three sides.
Waterways that are build by people and used for shipping and traveling.
What are canals?
The definition for river.
What is a large flowing water body that ends in an ocean or sea?
This landform can be found at the base of the Grand Canyon.
What is a valley?
A large group of islands close to each other.
What is an Archipelago?
The definition for hills.
What is lower than mountains but higher than their surroundings.
Large salt - water body but smaller than oceans and near land.
What are seas?
Daily Double!!!
Name four bodies of water.
What are (answers will vary)?
Hawaii is made up of these.
What are islands?