1. Landforms

2. The outer surface of Earth is a layer of rock called the crust.

3. The crust can have different shapes, such as mountains, hills, and valleys.

4. A landform is a solid feature of Earth’s crust.

5. Landforms are constantly changing
Landforms are constantly changing. Mountains can take millions of years to form.

6. Bodies of water are another type of feature found on Earths’s surface.

7. Rivers can act like saws, cutting through rock.

8. Lets go to page 34 to define different kinds of landforms.

9. mountain
A landform high above the land around it.

10. Huayna Picchu

11. hill
A high place on Earth´s surface; not as high as a mountain

13. valley
A low, narrow area between hills or moutains.

15. plateau
A plain that is higher than the land around it

16. Markawasi Plateau

18. volcano
An opening in Earth´s crust; pressure inside the earth forces hot melted rock up

19. El Misti

20. lake
A body of water surrounded by land

21. Lake Titicaca

22. plain
A large, mostly flat area mainly of grass.

23. (on the road to Puno)

24. glacier
A large, moving body of ice that moves downhill.

25. (in the Andes)

26. ocean
The body of salt water that covers almost ¾ of Earth´s surface

27. Chorrillos

28. coast
The land next to the ocean

29. Costa Verde

30. river
A large natural stream of moving water.

31. Rimac River

32. island
An area of land surrounded totally by water

33. An island on lake Titicaca

34. desert
A barren (empty) dry area

35. Ica

36. canyon
A deep V-shaped valley cut by a river through strong rock

37. Colca Canyon

38. peninsula
A body of land surrounded by water on 3 sides

40. waterfall
A place in a river where water spills suddenly downward

41. Las Cataratas Las Tres Hermanas - Rio Cutivireni