6th Geography: Landforms

A group of Islands.

• Mountain range

• Archipelago

• Peninsula

• Plain

Tundra

• A flat, treeless plain with permanently frozen ground

• A group of islands

• Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas

• A heavy-duty full-size pickup truck

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

• Isthmus

• Peninsula

• Basin

• Plain

Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas.

• Peninsula

• Plain

• Isthmus

• Archipelago

A narrow and wide passage of water joining two larger areas of water, usually two seas.

• Strait/Channel

• Basin

• Plain

• Tundra

A series of connected mountains.

• Mountain Range

• The Hill Country

• Plains

• Peninsula

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

• Mountain Range

• Isthmus

• Peninsula

• Strait

Area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses.

• A ditch

• Plain

• Mountains

• Hills

The state of Florida is an example of a _______.

• peninusla

• mountain range

• strait

• channel

Panama is described as what type of landform that was modified to benefit humans; the Panama canal was built to create a shortcut from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic.

• strait

• isthmus

• mountain range