This document defines and describes different types of landforms. The major landforms are mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins. Specifically, it defines a valley as a low area between hills or mountains formed by erosion, a plateau as a large, relatively flat highland separated from surrounding land by steep slopes, and a mountain as a highland over 600 meters above sea level. Plains are described as low areas less than 100 meters above sea level, and hills are defined as elevated areas lower than mountains.

1. Done by: Merlene Curtis
Grade: 4
November 23, 2014

2.  A landform is a feature on the Earth's surface
that is part of the terrain. Mountains, hills,
plateaus, and plains are the four major types
of landforms. Minor landforms include
buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins.

3. • Valleys
• Plateaus
• Mountains
• Plains
• Hills
• Rivers

4. A valley is a hollow or
surface depression of
the earth bounded by
hills or mountains, a
natural trough in the
earth's surface, that
slopes down to a
stream, lake or the
ocean, formed by water
and/or ice erosion.

5. A plateau is a large
highland area of fairly
level land separated from
surrounding land by steep
slopes.

6. A mountain is a highland
area that is 600 meters
above sea level.

7. Low area less than 100
meters above sea level

8. Hills are elevations of
the earth's surface
that have distinct
summits, but are
lower in elevation than
mountains.

9. A river is a body of fresh
water flowing through a
channel to the sea or
ocean. Click to view
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10.  http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landfor
ms.htm
 http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/valleyfl.
htm
 http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/plateau
rh.htm