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Definition of Landforms Explained

The document defines and provides examples of different types of landforms and bodies of water, including mountains, peninsulas, islands, plains, valleys, plateaus, gulfs, rivers, bays, and lakes. It also includes review questions to test understanding of the key characteristics of rivers, mountains versus valleys, islands, what connects a peninsula, and the definition of a bay.

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Definition of Landforms Explained

The document defines and provides examples of different types of landforms and bodies of water, including mountains, peninsulas, islands, plains, valleys, plateaus, gulfs, rivers, bays, and lakes. It also includes review questions to test understanding of the key characteristics of rivers, mountains versus valleys, islands, what connects a peninsula, and the definition of a bay.

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Landforms

By Nicholas
For Mrs. Rentz
Mountains
• A place on Earth’s
surface that is much
higher than the land
around it.
Peninsulas
• A piece of land that
projects into a body of
water and is connected
with the mainland by
an isthmus.
Islands
• An area of land that is
surrounded by a large
body of water.
Plains
• A flat area on Earth’s
surface.
Valleys
• A lowland area
between higher land
like mountains.
Plateaus

• A flat area higher than


the land around it.
Gulfs
• A big body of water
surrounded by a land
area almost
completely.
Rivers
• A moving body of
water.
Bays
A body of water
partially enclosed by
land but with a wide
mouth, affording
access to the sea.
A large inland body of
Lakes fresh water or salt
water.
Questions
• Which body of water moves?
Questions
• Which is higher, a mountain or a valley?
Questions
• What’s the name of a body of land that’s
surrounded by water?
Questions
• What’s the thing that connects a peninsula
to a larger body of land?
Questions
• What’s the name for a body of water that’s
only partially enclosed by land?
• (Hint: This body of water has a wide
mouth.)

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