1. Landforms Bodies of water WHY?? Earth’s Features!
Objective: Be able to identify and describe the earth’s features and the processes
that form and shape them.
Possible reasons:
It is required by the state of Texas.
By understanding your environment and having
knowledge about what affects it and how it affects you,
you become a more informed citizen, and in our country
we all have a responsibility or at least an opportunity
to vote on issues and have the freedom to start businesses
in which this knowledge could well be beneficial.
3. On a more personal and current note, this will be on a test! 
WHY??
Bodies of water

2. What do you already know? What do you need to know?
Get your pen and paper ready. The next few slides are
an effort to evaluate knowledge you may already have
and also to introduce things you don’t already know.
You will be given a definition or description of a landform
or body of water. Practice note-taking by bulleting the
important information from the slide, and if you know the
feature being described, label it!
The definition will be followed by a picture of the actual
feature– some of you will figure out the feature from this
slide. Try to add a quick sketch to your notes.

3. STRAIT A narrow channel of water joining 2 larger bodies of water.
Large body of water.
Small body of water.
Another large body of water.

4. Atoll A Ring-like coral island & reef that nearly encloses a lagoon.

5. Isthmus A narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger masses of land.
large piece of land
another large piece of land
A narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger masses of land.
Public Domain. Suggested Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team

6. Cataract
A step-like series of waterfalls.

7. Alluvial plain
A flat area resulting from repeated deposits of alluvial material by running water.

8. barrier island
mainland
Long narrow island
A long, relatively narrow island running parallel to the mainland.

9. Peninsula
A large piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.

10. Rift Valley
A lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands often having a river or stream running along the bottom.

11. Delta
Related term-
Estuary-
The wide lower course of a river where it flows into the sea. Estuaries experience tidal flows and their water is a changing mixture of fresh and salt.
2. Mouth of a river-
Place where a river flows
into a larger body of water.
A triangular area of land deposited at the mouth of a river.
delta

12. Archipelago
A group or chain of Islands

13. Fjord
A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between steep slopes

14. Canyon
A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall.

15. Plateau
An elevated, flat land higher than its surrounding land; a tableland

16. Headwaters
Where a river begins…

17. A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.U A Y
Smaller river
Larger river
A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.

18. Escarpment
A steep slope or long cliff that separates 2 level areas of differing elevations.

19. Glacier
A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass.

20. Panama Canal
A man-made waterway used for travel, shipping or irrigation
It’s a man made feature across what
kind of landform?????

21. There are of course many other types of
landforms and bodies of water…..
To finish out our objective, your next job
is to apply knowledge of internal
and external forces to their effect on the
Earth’s features.
For each landform we have just defined,
identify and explain the internal and/or
external process that formed it or
continues to shape it. Identify a real world
example for each landform AND body of water.
I think maybe the kids could possibly brainstorm at this point, I didn’t include everything on the list, but I can add them if you think I missed something essential.

22. External Forces
*weathering
- chemical
- physical
*erosion
Internal Forces
*plate tectonics
-collide
-move laterally
-pull apart

23. Let’s practice: How is a canyon formed?
Name a real world example of a canyon.
A canyon is formed by weathering and
erosion. Water breaks down the rock and carries it
away.
The Grand Canyon in the western U.S. is a “grand”
example.
One more, how is a plain formed or shaped?
Name a real world example of a
plain.