Landforms

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Landforms

• By Matheus brito

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Mountain range
A mountain range is a group or chain of mountains
that are close together. Mountain ranges are
usually separated from other mountain ranges by
passes and rivers.
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Glacier
A large body of ice moving slowly down a slope
or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
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Valley
An elongated depression between uplands, hills,
or mountains, especially one following the course
of a stream.
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Hill
A usually rounded natural elevation of land lower
than a mountain
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Planteau
A usually extensive land area having a relatively
level surface raised sharply above adjacent land
on at least one side.
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Tributary
flowing into a larger stream or other body of
water.
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Lake
A lake is a small body of water that is
completely surrounded by land. Lakes are usually
found in the bottom of a basin, and they are fed
by a river.
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Harbor
A part of a body of water along the shore deep
enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with
respect to coastal features, whether natural or
artificial, as to provide protection from winds,
waves, and currents.
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Bay
A body of water forming an indentation of the
shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a
gulf.
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Cape
Piece or point of land extending beyond the
adjacent coast into the sea or a lake a
promontory a headland. To head or point to keep
a course as the ship capes southwest by south.
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Reef
A submerged ridge of rock or coral near the
surface of the water reduce (a sail) by taking in
a reef.
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Cliffs
A steep high face of rock he stood on a high
cliff overlooking the town a steep drop.
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fiord
A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep
cliffs common in Norway.
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Sea
A division of an ocean or a large body of salt
water partially enclosed by land.
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Plain
Free from obstructions open clear in plain
view. Obvious to the mind evident make one's
intention plain.
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Delta
A delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth
of a river where that river flows into an ocean,
sea, estuary lake reservoir flat arid area or
another river. Deltas are formed from the
deposition of the sediment carried by the river
as the flow leaves the mouth of the river. Over
long periods of time, this deposition builds the
characteristic geographic pattern of a river
delta.
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Peninsula
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides
is called a peninsula.
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Island
A tract of land completely surrounded by water,
and not large enough to be called a continent.
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Strait
A narrow channel joining two larger bodies of
water.
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Archipelago
An expanse of water with many scattered islands.
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Basin
A natural or artificial hollow place containing
water.
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Mouth
The point where a stream issues into a larger
body of water New York is at the mouth of the
Hudson.
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Source
Source is a path of a body of water.
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Dune
Ridge of sand created by the wind found in
deserts or near lakes and oceanssand dune.
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Isthmus
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land
areas.
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Gulf
Portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by
land.
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Desert
An arid region with little or no vegetation.
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Oasis
A shelter serving as a place of safety or
sanctuary.
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Mesa
Flat tableland with steep edges the tribe was
relatively safe on the mesa but they had to
descend into the valley for water.
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Volcano
A fissure in the earth's crust or in the surface
of some other planet through which molten lava
and gases erupt.