Geography Vocabulary

Landforms are

• features that are inside of the Earth

• features that make up the Earth's surface

• ideas that make up the Earth's surface

• the way the land looks

An example of an archipelago is

• Australia

• Hawaii

• Canada

• California

A canyon is

• like a valley but with very steep sides and a river at the bottom

• a deep rut in the plains where a stream is

• a space without water or plants in the desert

• the space between two gently sloping hills

One characteristic of an island is

• it is a large body of water

• it always has a small body of water

• it is land surrounded by water

• it is water surrounded by land

An isthmus is

• water surrounding land

• a big piece of land surrounded by water

• a small piece of land surrounded by water on all sides

• a narrow strip of land connecting to larger pieces of land with water on both sides

A lake is

• a small body of water with land on most sides

• a large body of water with land on all sides

• a large body of land with water on all sides

• a large body of water with land on most sides

The best phrase to describe a mountain is...

• hill

• high elevation

• plain

• snow

Oceans are ALWAYS

• large pieces of land

• salty

• right beside lakes

• clean

A peninsula is

• water that is surrounded by land on three sides

• land that is surrounded by water on three sides

• flat land by the ocean

• a mountain that has an elevation greater than 3,000 feet next to the ocean

A characteristic of plains is

• the have major changes in elevation

• they have small changes in elevation

• they have a limited variety of plants and wildlife

• they only grow natural species of plants