Landforms
Across
- 2. land lying next to a sea or ocean
- 6. narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas
- 9. piece of land that is surrounded by water
- 10. body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded by water on three sides
- 14. a group or chain of islands
- 18. measurement of the height of land above sea level
- 19. point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean
- 21. small river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream; a branch of a river
- 22. part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, usually larger than a bay
- 24. flat lands that have only small changes in elevation
- 25. large, thick body of slowly moving ice
- 26. area of land drained by a given river and its branches
Down
- 1. land with steep sides that rise sharply
- 3. (of a river) place where a river or stream begins
- 4. body of water between a coastline and one ore more islands off the coast
- 5. mountain created as liquid rock (lava) or ash erupts from inside the Earth
- 7. large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land
- 8. flat, low-lying land built up from sediment carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth
- 11. narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water
- 12. a large natural stream of water that runs through the land
- 13. part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, usually smaller than a gulf
- 15. wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other
- 16. broad, flat-topped landform with steep sides; smaller than a plateau
- 17. sizable inland body of water
- 19. steep face of rock and soil
- 20. deep valley with very steep sides - often carved from the Earth by a river
- 23. small fertile area surrounded by desert
- 24. area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300-3000 feet high