Landforms

Valleys

• A valley is in the middle of two mountains or hills.
• Valleys can be more than a hundred miles long.

Plateaus

• A plateau has steep sides and a flat top.
• There are 2 different kinds of plateaus the dissected and volcanic plateau.
• Ice plateaus cover most of Greenland and Antarctica.

Plain
A plain is a large flat area of land with not a lot of trees.

Bay

• A bay is made by land and water
• A bay gets water from a river
• That water goes to an ocean

Peninsula

• A Peninsula is land that is mostly surrounded by water.
• One part of it is attached to a main land.
• The word Peninsula comes from the Latin word paene insula.
• Which means almost an island.
• The worlds largest peninsula is in Arabia covering 1 million square miles.

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