Landforms
A high hill with a peak
What is a mountain?
Largest body of water, the saltwater between continents
What is an ocean?
A large area of wide flat, land
What is a plain?
An area of land with a rounded top
What is a hill?
Water that flows from a higher landform to a lower one
Land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
A small river
What is a stream?
Mountaintop glaciers that spread down the sides of the mountain
What are Ice Caps?
A place where land meets the water
What is a coast?
A smaller body of salt water
What is a sea?
Mass of slow-moving ice and snow
What is a glacier?
A body of freshwater completely surrounded by land
What is a lake?
Natural features of a land surface
What are landforms?
Land surrounded on three sides with water
What is a peninsula?
Large bodies of water bordered on three sides by land
What is a gulf?
A deep valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
A smaller gulf
What is a bay?
A grassy plain with few trees
What is a prairie?
Where a river flows into a larger body of water
What is a delta?
A manmade waterway
What is a canal?
Narrow strip of land connected to two larger pieces of land
What is an isthmus?
Narrow waterway that connects two bodies of water
What is a strait?
A mountain with a flat top
What is a plateau?
Lower than the land around it
What is a valley?
Long, narrow indent in the shoreline
What is an inlet?