What is an ocean?

ocean* -- a great expanse of salt water.

What is an island?

island -- a piece of land completely surrounded by water

What is a cape?

cape -- A point or head of land projecting into a body of water

What is an isthmus?

isthmus* -- a narrow strip of land, like a bridge, connecting two larger strips of land

What is a bay?

bay -- an area of sea partially enclosed by land, smaller than a gulf

What is a beach?

A beach is a landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobble. The particles of which the beach is composed can sometimes instead have biological origins, such as shell fragments or coralline algae fragments. Beaches often occur along coastal areas, where wave or current action deposits and reworks sediments.

What is a peninsula?

peninsula* -- a narrow stretch of land surrounded on three sides by water.

What is a sea?

sea* -- a relatively large body of water, either part of an ocean that is partially surrounded by land (the Caribbean Sea), or a body of water that is completely landlocked (the Caspian Sea is seen in the image above)

What is a river?

A long body of water that flows across the land. The Nile River is the longest river in the world The Amazon River is in Brazil. The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States.

What is a delta?

delta -- a place at the river's mouth, where the river splits into many different sections, forming a marshy triangle

What is a tributary?

tributary* -- A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water

What is a flood plain ?

flood plain -- A plain bordering a river and subject to flooding.

What is a pond?

pond is a body of water smaller than a lake.

What is a gulf?

gulf* -- A large area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land

What is a strait?

strait -- A narrow channel of water joining two larger bodies of water (usually narrower than a sound).

What is a swamp?

swamp -- A lowland region saturated with water.

What is a lake?

lake* -- A large inland body of fresh water or salt water

What is a glacier?

glacier -- A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass

What is a plain?

Plains are broad, nearly level stretches of land that have no great changes in elevation. Plains are generally lower than the land around them; they may be found along a coast or inland.

What is a dune?

dune is a hill or a ridge made of sand. Dunes are shaped by the wind, and change all the time.

What is a hill?

hill* -- a small elevation in the earth's surface

What is a canyon?
canyon -- A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water

What is a plateau?

plateau -- an elevated level expanse of land; a tableland.

What is a continental divide ?

A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent.

What is a mountain?

The highest kind of land. They are caused when two tectonic places collided. Types of mountains: Folded, Unwarped, & FaultBlock

What is a volcano?

volcano -- An opening in the earth's crust through which molten lava, ash, and gases are ejected. Types of volcanoes: Shield, Strato, Dome, Cinder Cone, and Rhyolite Caldera Complex