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Landforms
Bodies of Water
Landforms
Bodies of Water
Landforms
100
a high area of land with steep sides and a sharp peak
What is a mountain?
100
a body of salt water that covers most of the earth
What is an ocean?
100
a piece of land that is surrounded by water
What is an island?
100
a stream of water that falls from a high place
What is a waterfall?
100
a hole in the earth's crust through which lava, gases, and ash is released
What is a volcano?
200
a high, steep face of rock or earth
What is a cliff?
200
a long body of water that flows over land
What is a river?
200
a hollow area in the earth with an opening to the outside
What is a cave?
200
a body of water that extends into the land
What is a bay?
200
a hill of sand formed by blowing wind
What is a dune?
300
a region of little rainfall where few plants and animals live
What is a desert?
300
an inland body of fresh or salt water
What is a lake?
300
a large, low area of flat or rolling land with few trees
What are plains?
300
a fan-shaped deposit of sand and mud at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
300
an area of low land between mountains or hills
What is a valley?
400
a flat area of land that is higher than the land around it
What is a plateau?
400
a large body of salt water that is partly enclosed by land
What is a gulf?
400
a deep valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
400
a body of water that connects two larger bodies of water
What is a channel?
400
a point of land that juts out into the water
What is a cape?
500
a large group of islands
What is an archipelago?
500
a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water
What is a strait?
500
a narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas
What is an isthmus?
500
a long, narrow inlet of the sea between between cliffs or slopes
What is a fjord?
500
a bowl-shaped depression, or hollow, in the Earth's surface
What is a basin?