Landforms

a natural underground chamber or series of chambers open to the surface; hollow space underground that's big enough for a person to walk or crawl into

• cave

• mountain

• plain

• desert

a natural feature of a land surface

• lake

• erosion

• landform

• deposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

an elevation higher than a hill

• cave

• mountain

• plateau

• plains

a cavity in the ground, especially in limestone bedrock, caused by water erosion and providing a route for surface water to disappear underground

• cave

• sinkhole

• canyon

• island

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

is the result of an aquifer being filled to the point that the water overflows onto the land surface. They range in size from intermittent seeps, which flow only after much rain, to huge pools flowing hundreds of millions of gallons daily

• cave

• valley

• desert

• spring

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a small water body with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of the channel

• stream

• river

• ocean

• lake

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a vent in the earth's crust from which melted or hot rock and steam come out

• volcano

• island

• glacier

• mountain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface

• lake

• glacier

• ocean

• river

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

a high ridge or mound of land, not as tall as a mountain

• hill

• mountain

• plateau

• plains

a piece of land that is surrounded on all sides by water

• hill

• peninsula

• lake

• island