LANDFORMS

The Earth

30% LAND

70% WATER

Continents

• The largest landform

• There are SEVEN (7) Continents

Asia

Africa

North America

South America

Antarctica

Europe

Australia

Asia

Africa

North America

South America

Antarctica

Europe

Australia

Topography

• The shape and elevation of the Earth’s terrain

What is visible from air or space

Islands

• Land completely surrounded by water

Aruba

Archipelago

• A chain of Islands

Peninsula

• Land surrounded by water on THREE (3) sides

Isthmus

• Small stretch of land connecting larger bodies of land

North America

South America

Plain

• A broad flat

area of land

Plateau

• Elevated flat land

Mountains

• Land that rises steeply