Land
A hill with a flat top smaller than a mesa and a plateau.
What is butte?
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
A large piece of ice made up of fallen snow that thickens and hardens into one big piece.
What is a glacier?
This landform is used as a personification in the classic film, The Sound of Music.
What is the hills are alive?
A narrow part of land jutting into the water.
What is a cape?
A deep narrow valley that usually has a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?
Where the ocean meets the land. Shore is sandy or pebbly.
What is a beach?
A piece of land that has water on all sides.
What is an island?
An area in the desert where there is water and plants grow.
What is an oasis?
Dry land that is often waterless.
What is a desert?
An underground area usually in a hillside or cliff.
What is a cave?
Usually by the coast or sea, this tall rock has steep sides.
What is a cliff?
A hill with a flat top and steep sides.
What is a mesa?
These landforms have steep sides and are bigger than hills. Cadillac, Katahdin and Sugarloaf are some of Maine's most popular landform.
What is a mountain?
Land that is tall and flat.
What is a plateau?
A tall rock with a very steep side. Usually by the coast or sea.
What is a cliff?
A large body of salt water.
What is an ocean?
A part of the ocean that extends out to the land but is smaller than a gulf.
What is a bay?
A narrow piece of land with water on both sides. The land connects two bigger pieces of land.
What is an isthmus?
A mound made of sand formed from the wind.
What are sand dunes?
This land is made by a river that drains into a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
A small body of water.
What is a pond?
What is a canal?
A piece of land that sticks out and is almost completely surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake.
What is a tributary?