Geography and Landforms

A natural depression on the earth's surface, bowl shaped

• mountain

• basin

• river

A lake is

• large body of water surrounded by land

• large land without water

• a very high mountain

A deep valley or gorge with very steep sides

• glacier

• volcano

• canyon

An large flat area of relatively high ground

• river

• plateau

• lake

A slowly moving mass of river of ice

• glacier

• peninsula

• valley

A dry barren land mass where very little rain happens, covered with sand

• canyon

• desert

• lake

The mouth of the river that diverges into several outlets like an ocean, sea, lake, or another river

• volcano

• lake

• delta

A large natural elevation of earth's surface that extends above the surrounding terrain, steeper than a hill

• mountain

• desert

• basin

A mountain that has a crater opening in the earth's crust through which molten magma, lava hot gases erupt from earth's crust

• volcano

• delta

• basin

A low area of land between hills or mountains

• glacier

• plateau

• valley