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VZ-LANDFORMS
WLD GEOG G & H 10.2009
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abyssal Fans | underwater version of alluvial fans, soil deposited on the continental slope, the deepest part of the ocean floor. |
| atoll | island of coral that partially or completely surrounds a lagoon |
| archipelago | a group or chain of islands |
| alluvial fan | soil deposited at the base of mountains, caused by flowing water |
| basin | a large or small depression in the surface of the land or the ocean floor. |
| butte | an isolated hill or mountain with steep sides, usually has a smaller summit than a mesa |
| continent | the largest of the earth's land masses |
| continental shelf | a shallow submarine plain of varying width forming a border to a continent and typically ending in a steep slope to oceanic abyss |
| caldera | a volcanic crater that has a diameter much larger than the vent, formed by collapse of the central part of the volcano or eruption |
| canyon | a narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge. ... |
| cape | a point or extension of land jutting out into water like a peninsula, only smaller |
| crevasse | a deep crevice or fissure as in a glacier |
| dell | a small valley |
| delta | land formed at the mouth of a river by sediment deposits |
| desert | an arid barren land usually with less than 10 inches of precipitation |
| drumlin | an elongated or oval hill of glacial drift |
| escarpment | a long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth's crust |
| waterfall | caused by a stream, flowing over an erosion-resistant rock formation that forms a sudden break in elevation. |
| esker | a serpentine ridge of gravelly and sandy drift, formed by glacial meltwater |
| fjord | a long narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs and usually formed by glacial erosion |
| geyser | up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air |
| glacier | a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface |
| island | land completely surrounded by water |
| isthmus | a narrow neck of land that connects two larger land masses |
| kettle | a deep bowl-shaped depression in glacial drift |
| mesa | a broad flat-topped elevation with cliff like sides |
| moraine | a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay |
| mountain | a natural elevation of land rising more or less abruptly to a summit and usually an elevation of 1000 feet or more |
| peninsula | a portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger land mass |
| plateau | a usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface that rises sharply above adjacent land on at least 1 side |
| plain | an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 ft within the area |
| range | a chain of mountains forming a single system |
| rift | an elongated crevice formed by the depression of a block of the earth's crust between two faults or groups of faults of approximately parallel strike |
| summit | the highest point; peak, the topmost level attainable |
| valley | an elongated depression of the earth's surface usually between hills or mountains |
| volcano | a vent in the crust of the earth or another planet from which molten or hot rock and steam issue |
| bay | an inlet of the sea or other small body of water usually smaller than a gulf |
| bog | a poorly drained usually acid rich area in accumulated plant material |
| cataract | a descent of water over a steep surface as in a waterfall or series of rapids |
| channel | a navigable route between two bodies of water, or a wide strait as between a continent and and island |
| course | the path over which something moves or extends |
| estuary | a water passage where the tide meets a river current: an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river |
| geyser | a spring that throws forth intermittent jets of heated water and steam |
| gulf | part of an ocean or sea that extends into land, usually large in size |
| lagoon | a body of comparatively shallow salt water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature. |
| lake | body of water surrounded by land |
| marsh | a wetland that features shallow water and various grasses |
| meander | the snake-like movements of a river as moves over the landscape |
| ocean | an extremely large body of salt water |
| sea | large expanse of salt water connected to an even larger body of salt water |
| spring | a point where groundwater flows out of the ground; where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface. |
| strait | s narrow neck of water connecting two larger bodies of water |
| swamp | wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks and a large amount of woody vegetation |
| tributary | a stream or river that flows into a larger river |
| source | the origin or beginning of a stream or irver |
| marsh | a wetland having usually shallow waters and a variety of grasses; lacks trees |
| sound | a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land |
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