Highs and Lows
A chain or series of mountains that are connected
Mountain Range
A relatively small body of water that reaches into land that is well-sheltered from surges and waves. Excellent place to keep your boat!
What is a harbor?
A flat, open expanse of land usually covered by grass or grain/crops
What is a plain?
A moist, dense tree forest with high annual rainfall.
What is a jungle?
a partially enclosed coastal body of salt water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it
What is an estuary?
Largest form of a weathered and eroded flat-topped former mountain
What is a plateau?
What is a large mass of moving ice?
What is a glacier?
Land that extends into a body of water that is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
A dry expanse of land that has little vegetation and extremely low yearly precipitation.
What is a desert?
a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon
What is an atoll?
A smaller, flat-topped remains of a mountain. Its name comes from Spanish for "table"
What is a mesa?
One travels from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico! A moving body of water that is carved through the land. They can be rather large or quite small.
What is a river?
A chain or series of islands. Sometimes, they appear to form a chain.
What is an archipelago?
What is the largest kind of land mass on Earth?
What is a continent?
a gorge or ravine, especially in North America, usually formed by the down-cutting of a river in a dry area where there is insufficient rainfall to erode the sides of the valley
What is a canyon?
What is a triangular shaped area of land formed by deposition at the mouth of a river
delta
Usually smaller than a gulf, a body of water that reaches into land and is partially surrounded by land.
What is a bay?
Land between mountains at a lower elevation - sometimes has a river flowing through
What is a valley?
land along the sea or ocean
What is the coast?
a large underground chamber, typically of natural origin, in a hillside or cliff
What is a cavern?
A landform that features a sudden and dramatic drop in elevation causing a river to cascade down from a higher elevation.
What is a cliff or waterfall?
Smaller than an ocean, yet this type of body of water can be enormous. One is called "Red" and is most assuredly not! Maybe we will one day see geographers "part" with that name.
What is a sea?
A narrow strip of land that connects two, much larger land masses. Panama is an example.
What is an isthmus?
A cold waterway that flows between glacial mountains. Hint: they are mostly in Norway and Sweden.
What is a fjord?
a narrow deep waterway connecting two larger bodies of water
What is a strait/channel?