LANDFORMS

VALLEY

• A valley is a low area between hills, often with a river running through it
• In geology, a valley or dale is a depression that is longer than it is wide

COAST

• If you've ever been to a beach you've been to a coast
• The coast is the land along the sea

DUNE

• A dune is a mound of sand formed by the wind, usually along a beach or desert
• Dunes form when wind blows sand into a sheltered area behind an obstacle

CLIFF

• A cliff is a mass of rock that rises very high and is almost vertical, or straight up-and-down
• Cliffs are very common landscape features. They can form near the ocean,(sea cliff), high in mountains or as the walls of canyons and valleys.

HILL

• A hill is a piece of land that rises higher than everything surrounding it
• It looks like a little bump in the earth
• Hills are easier to climb than mountains because they are not as steep and high as mountains

WATERFALL

• A waterfall is a river or other body of water's steep fall over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool below
• Waterfalls are also called a cascades

PLAIN

• A plain is a broad area of relatively flat land
• Plains are one of the major landforms, or types of land, on earth
• Plains cover more than one-third of the worlds land area
• Plains exist on every continent

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