What are landforms?
Features of the surface of the earth
What are the two shapes of land?
Inland and Coastal
What does inland mean?
Far from the sea
What does coastal mean?
Close to the sea
What is the difference between inland and island?
Inland is a type of landform that is far from the sea. Islands are areas of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What joins together to form a long line?
Mountain range
What are plateaus?
Large areas of high and flat land that have at least 1 steep side and flat tops
Wide areas of flat land are called:
Plains
What is a massive rock that rises high and is straight up and down?
Cliff
What are valleys? What do they have?
A low between mountains or hills that are U or V shaped, they have fertile soil
What is the landform that is surrounded by water on 3 sides?
Peninsula
What are deserts?
Dry areas of land that are either hot or cold with little precipitation
What are the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands an example of?
Archipelago
Large areas of high and flat land that have at least 1 steep slope and a flat top is called:
Plateau
A dry land that can be hot or cold with little precipitatation is called:
Desert
What is a plain?
Wide areas of flat land
