Landforms Word Search
This landforms word search has 40 shapes of the land: high ground like the mountain, plateau, mesa and butte, low ground like the valley, canyon and delta, and the places where land meets water, the peninsula, the isthmus and the headland.
A mesa and a butte are made the same way. A hard layer of rock on top protects the softer rock beneath while everything around it wears away. Mesa is Spanish for table, and a mesa is wider than it is tall. Keep wearing it down and it becomes a butte, taller than it is wide, like the ones in Monument Valley on the Arizona and Utah border. The delta got its name from the Greek letter, because the mouth of the Nile spreads out in a triangle.
Some landforms record how they were made. A fjord is a valley carved by a glacier and then flooded by the sea, which is why Norway's coast is full of them. An atoll is a ring of coral around a lagoon, and in 1842 Charles Darwin explained it as a reef that kept growing upward while the volcanic island in the middle sank. The Isthmus of Panama rose about three million years ago and joined North and South America.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Alluvial Fan
- Arch
- Atoll
- Badlands
- Bluff
- Butte
- Canyon
- Cave
- Cirque
- Cove
- Crater
- Delta
- Drumlin
- Dune
- Escarpment
- Fjord
- Gorge
- Headland
- Highland
- Hill
- Inlet
- Isthmus
- Knoll
- Lagoon
- Lowland
- Marsh
- Mesa
- Moraine
- Mountain
- Peninsula
- Plateau
- Ravine
- Ridge
- Sinkhole
- Slope
- Spit
- Summit
- Swamp
- Valley
- Waterfall