1. GEOGRAPHY LANDFORMS TERMS

2. Rivers – Moving water flowing from high elevation to low elevation
Rivers – Moving water flowing from high elevation to low elevation. Tributaries – smaller moving bodies of water that form rivers (streams and creeks)

3. thin strip of land connecting two larger land masses; land bridge.
ISTHMUS-

4. Narrow strip of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
STRAIT -

5. Ancient snow and ice that are hundreds of feet deep and always moving on land.
GLACIER-

6. Ancient snow and ice that are hundreds of feet deep and always moving on water.
ICEBERG-

7. Bodies of water cut out by retreating glaciers.
FJORD

8. VALLEY-
Long, low lands between highlands.

9. – Area between level ground caused by erosion.
CANYON

10. Valley caused by separating plates.
RIFT -
Valley caused by separating plates.

11. -Raised flat land with at least one steep cliff.
PLATEAU

12. -plateau with steep cliffs on all sides.
MESA

13. - single face cliff of a plateau.
ESCARPMENT
- single face cliff of a plateau.

14. -land with water on all sides. -large group of islands.
ARCHIPELAGO

15. -land with water on three sides.
PENINSULA

16. – an alluvial fan at a mouth of a river.
Fan shaped deposit of mud and gravel often at the foot of a mountain.
DELTA
ALLUVIAL FAN
– an alluvial fan at a mouth of a river.

17. Lagoon – small body of water cut off from a large body of water by sand or coral reef.

18. Atoll - is an island of coral that encircles a dormant volcano partially or completely.

19. Sea
Ocean
Lake
Gulf
Bay

20. Bodies of water
Ocean - Large bodies of salt water that cover two-thirds of the earth’s surface.
Sea - Large bodies of salt water that are partially or wholly enclosed by land.
Gulf – An area of salt water partly enclosed by coastline.
Bay – Fresh or salt water partly enclosed by land; inlet to a lake or sea.
Lake – Mostly landlocked body of water.