Landforms, Themes of Geography,Maps

Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water

• peninsula
• bay
• lake

Wide strait or waterway between 2 land masses that lie close to each other, deep part of a river or other waterway

• bay
• channel

Elevated land area such as a hill, mountain or plateau

• Isthmus
• highland

Area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation about 300 to 3,000 feet high. 

• Mountain
• Plateau

Area of land drained by a given river and its branches; area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevations

• basin
• valley

Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline.

• cape
• bay

Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas 

• strait
• isthmus

Point of land that extends into a river, lake or ocean

• bay
• cape

Broad inland body of water, often between a coastline and one or more islands off the coast. 

• lake
• sound

Flat, low lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth. 

• bayou
• delta