Landscapes & Landforms
Across
- 2. PLATES Mountains are formed by these pushing against each other
- 5. Area covered in boulders and large stones
- 8. Isolated, steep-sided hill of resistant rock on a plain
- 10. Dry watercourse in a narrow valley that divides a plateau
- 11. Broad, curved indentation in the coastline
- 14. A river mouth broadening into the sea
- 15. Steep-sided, lone peak rising over 600 metres above the surrounding land
- 16. Desert area with a water supply provided by groundwater
- 20. A bend in a river
- 22. A group or chain of islands
- 23. Tall pillar of rock formed by wave action eroding a cliff
- 25. A large body of water surrounded by land
- 27. A long, narrow elevation of land
- 28. A natural geographic feature or shape that appears on the Earth’s surface
Down
- 1. Narrow strip of land that connects an island to the mainland
- 3. Narrow strip of land protruding into the sea
- 4. Crescent-shaped lake on a river floodplain
- 6. Chain of connected mountains
- 7. Fan-shaped, low-lying area of deposits at the mouth of a river
- 9. Area providing water to a river system
- 12. A flat-topped, steep-sided plateau
- 13. Opening in the Earth’s crust where molten rock, ash and gas can escape
- 17. Natural waterway that takes water downhill by gravity to the sea
- 18. Small river that joins a larger river
- 19. Deposited rock particles along the coastline
- 21. Narrow, steep-sided valley carved out by the upper reaches of a river
- 24. Steep rock face formed by wave action
- 26. Bowl-shaped hollow formed by glacial erosion