1. What are Landforms?

2. What are landforms?
Landforms are the natural shapes or features of Earth.

3. landforms
There are many different types of landforms found on the earth.
These landforms help make up the Earth’s physical geography.

4. mountain
A mountain is a place on Earth’s surface that is much higher than the land around it.
                                     
Mount Everest, Himalayas

5. valley
                                          
A valley is a lowland area between higher lands such as mountains.
               
Kualoa Valley, Oahu

6. canyon A canyon is a deep valley with very steep sides.
                                                        
Grand Canyon, Arizona

7. plain
A plain is a flat area on Earth’s surface.
Plains in Kansas

8. plateau A plateau is a flat area higher than the land around it.
Canyonlands National Park, Utah

9. island An island is land that is completely surrounded by water.
Necker Island, British Virgin Islands

10. lake A lake is water that is completely surrounded by land.
Heaven Crater Lake, North Korea

11. ocean
Oceans are the largest bodies of water on earth.

12. coast A coast is the area where the ocean touches the land.
Outer Banks, North Carolina

13. desert A desert is a hot dry place with little or no rainfall.
Gobi Desert, Asia

14. river
A river is a long flowing body of water.
River Thames, England

15. waterfall
A cascade of water falling from a height, formed when a river or stream flows over a steep incline.
Yosemite Falls, California

16. volcano
A mountain or hill, typically conical, that has a vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor and gas erupt from the Earth’s crust.
Krakatoa, Indonesia

17. peninsula
a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
Cape Peninsula, South Africa

18. bay a broad inlet of the sea where land curves inward.
San Francisco Bay, California

19. cliff a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.
White Cliffs of Dover, England