Landforms Vocabulary Quiz

A natural feature of Earth's surface

a fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto a flatter land

a hill with steep sides and a small flat top and smaller than a mesa.

a curved rock bridge that forms when chemical and physical weathering weakens center, and the rock erodes. They can form on land or near the coast, where waves batter and erode

a hole that forms when the top of a volcano blows off or when the magma below the volcano drains away

a gently sloping shore next to a body of water washed by waves or tides, often covered by sand and pebbles.

a v-shaped valley with steep sides eroded by a stream

a volcano formed from a pile of cinders and other volcanic material blown out in an explosive eruption

a high, steep face of rock

a bowl shaped depression made by an explosion at the mouth of a volcano or geyser or by the impact of a falling object like a meteorite

a large mass of ice moving slowly over land

a formation where weak rocks erode away, leaving oddly shaped resistant rocks

a piece of land surrounded by water

an often fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream or river

a break in Earth's surface along which movement has occured