LandformsLandforms

Grade 5

LANDFORMS

Landforms are the kinds of land a place has.

Landforms include mountains, valleys, plateaus, deserts,plains, islands, and peninsulas.

MOUNTAINS

Land that rises sharply from the land around it

Mountains can be tall and sharply pointed like the Rocky Mountains.

Mountains can be lower

and more rounded like the

Appalachian Mountains.

PLATEAUS

Plateaus are landforms that have STEEP SIDES and a FLAT top.

They may stretch for miles in every direction.

ISLANDS

An island is a piece of land that has water on all sides.

PLAINS

The area of flat land or gently rolling land with no trees.

Plains are flat sometimes grassy lands that stretch for miles and can be good habitats for animals like zebras, lions, and elephants, giraffes.

PENINSULAS

A peninsula is a piece of land that has water on ONLY THREE sides and attached to another piece of land.

A good example of a peninsula is FLORIDA.

ocean

A large body of salt water

lake

A body of water with land on all sides

isthmus

A narrow strip of land joining two larger bodies of land

Peak

Highest part of a mountain; the top

river

A long, narrow body of water that flows through the land

levee

An artificial embankment built at the side of a river to stop flooding

bay

A body of water that is part of a sea or ocean which extends into the land

delta

Land built up by slit deposits at the mouth of a river

tributary

A stream or river that empties into a larger river