What are landforms?

1. What are Landforms?
Elena García Marín

2. What are landforms?
•Landforms are the natural
shapes called landforms.
•There are many different
types of landforms found
on the earth: landforms of
continental relief and
landforms of coastal relief

3. Plain
A plain is
a flat area
on Earth’s
surface.

4. Plateau
A plateau is
a flat area
higher than
the land
around it.

5. Hill
A hill is
a small
elevation
in the
Earth's
surface

6. Mountain
A mountain is
a place on
Earth’s surface
that is much
higher than the
land around it.

7. Valley
A valley is
a lowland
area between
higher lands
such as
mountains.

8. Depression
A depression is
an area that is
lower than its
surroundings.

9. Canyon
A canyon is
a deep valley
with very
steep sides

10. Peninsula
A peninsula is
a body of
land that is
surrounded
by water on
three sides

11. Island
An island is
land that is
completely
surrounded
by water

12. Archipelago
An archipelago
is a group or
chain of
islands
together in a
sea or ocean.

13. Coast
A coast is
the area
where the
ocean
touches
the land.

14. Lake
A lake is
water that is
completely
surrounded
by land.

15. River
A river is
a long
flowing
body of
water

16. Cape
A cape is
a pointed
piece of
land that
sticks out
into a sea

17. Gulf
A gulf is a part
of the ocean
that is partly
surrounded by
land (it is
usually larger
than a bay).

18. Bay
A bay is
a body of water
that is partly
enclosed by land
(and is usually
smaller than a
gulf).

19. Strait or channel
A strait is
a narrow
body of
water that
connects two
larger bodies
of water