MacG SHS Year 8 Geography - The Earth Moves

Narrow stretch of water between the Australian mainland and Tasmania that separates the Indian Ocean from the Pacific Ocean.

• The Great Australian Bight

• Indian Ocean

• Bass Strait

• Gulf of Carpentaria

An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat, narrow summit.

• mountain

• cave

• mesa

• butte

A large scale, steep sided valley which is deeper than it is wide.

• mesa

• canyon

• cave

• plain

A flat top hill standing up from a plain.

• butte

• mesa

• bluff

• volcano

• gorge

• strait

• stream

• river

A wide area of flat land with limited change in elevation.

• plain

• plateau

• headland

• glacier

Slow moving river of ice.

• glacier

• avalanche

• moraine

• icefall

Narrow strip of land connecting two large land areas otherwise separated by water.

• cape

• isthmus

• channel

• strait

High, rocky land usually with steep sides and a pointed or rounded top, higher than a hill.

• mountain

• ridge

• fault

• gorge

A low place between mountains.

• gorge

• canyon

• valley

• delta