Landforms are natural features on the Earth's surface. There are many different types of landforms including mountains, hills, volcanoes, basins, valleys, canyons, plains, plateaus, lakes, coasts, peninsulas, and deltas. Major landforms also include mountains ranges, continental shelves, isthmuses, and cliffs. Bodies of water that help define landforms include oceans, seas, rivers, waterfalls, branches, mouths, canals, gulfs, bays, islands, archipelagos, fjords, and straits.

3. What are landforms? Landforms are the natural shapes or features. There are many different types of landforms found on the earth.

4. Main Landforms

5. mountain A mountain is a place on Earth’s surface that is much higher than the land around it.

6. mountain range a long chain of mountains; a row of connected mountains

7. hill A hill is land that rises above the land around it. A hill has a rounded top.

8. volcano a cone shaped mountain formed out of rock or ash thrown up from inside the earth, frequently with an opening or depression at the top

9. basin an area of land largely enclosed by higher land.

10. valley A valley is a lowland area between higher lands such as mountains.

11. canyon A canyon is a deep valley with very steep sides.

12. plain A plain is a flat area on Earth’s surface.

13. plateau A plateau is a flat area higher than the land around it.

14. lake A lake is water that is completely surrounded by land.

15. coast A coast is the area where the ocean touches the land.

16. continental shelf plateau of land surface into the ocean but underwater

17. peninsula piece of land that extends into a body of water and is surrounded on three sides by water

18. isthmus narrow strip of land with water on both sides connecting two larger pieces of land

19. strait a narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water

20. cliff a high, steep slope of rock or soil

21. delta land built up by deposits of sand and silt at the mouth of some rivers

22. fjord a narrow inlet of the sea between high banks or cliffs created by glaciers

23. cape a curved or hooked piece of land extending into a body of water

24. gulf part of a sea or ocean that reaches into land; usually larger than a bay

25. bay part of a body of salt water that reaches into the land; usually smaller than a gulf

26. island An island is land that is completely surrounded by water.

27. archipelago a group of many islands

28. OTROS TÉRMINOS GEOGRÁFICOS

29. ocean Oceans are the largest bodies of water on earth.

30. sea a large body of water, usually salt water, partly or completely surrounded by land

31. river A river is a long flowing body of water.

32. source the place where a river or stream begins

33. waterfall place where running water makes a sheer drop, usually over a cliff

34. branch a river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream

35. mouth place where a river empties into a larger body of water; the end of a river

36. altitude the height above sea level

37. canal a man-made waterway connecting two bodies of water and is designed to shorten travel time or irrigate

38. one of the six largest bodies of land on earth

39. glacier a large body of slow moving ice which alters the land around it through displacement

40. hemisphere half of the earth usually referred to as eastern or western; northern or southern

41. iceberg a large mass of floating ice that has broken off from a glacier, most of this is underwater