THE WORLD AT A GLANCE

MOUNTAINS

• an area of land that rises very high above the land
• Matterhorn, Switzerland
• Matterhorn is the tenth highest mountain in Switzerland.

WATERFALL

• a cascade of water falling from a height
• Niagra Falls
• This waterfall is made of three waterfalls

VALLEY

• a low area of land between hills or mountains
• Yosemite Valley
• Valleys usually have rich soil

MESA

• an isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides
• Neuquen Providence
• Mesa means table in Spanish

DELTA

• watery land formed at the mouth of a river
• In Botswana
• It's often shaped like a triangle.

DELTA

ALLUVIAL FAN

• a fan-shaped mass of alluvium
• Death Valley

LEVEE

• embankment built to prevent the overflow
• New Orleans, LA, US
• Bordering Wadden Sea, Netherlands
• May reduce flood risk, but doesn't eliminate it

CANYON

• deep gorge, typically with a river flowing through it
• Northern Arizona, USA
• Richtersveld National Park, Namibia

MEANDER

• a winding curve or bend of a river
• In Colonel Josefa Area, Argentina
• In Cuba

RIVER

• a large natural flow of water
• In Shandong, China
• On the border of Romania and Ukraine

PLATEAU

• an area of relatively level high ground
• Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates
• It takes a long time for a plateau to form.

REFLECTION

• I learned many things during this project.
• I learned that there are many different forms of land
• I also learned that there are landforms all around the Earth
• When I go somewhere, I can identify the different landforms.