Landforms Glossary Definition and drawings of landforms

Landforms of the World Great place to start! Definition of landforms with illustrations and real life examples.

World Landform Interactive Map - see examples of landforms around the world.

Geography's World: List of links including some for landforms

World Book Online Look up your landform.

Habitats and Landforms: LOTS of links to sites with information about landforms AND Habitats

The Visible Earth Photographs of earth landforms taken from the satellites of NASA - SEARCHABLE by keyword

Types of Land Features mountains, islands, deserts and plains. Just click on the USA map.

World Geography Geography links from info please.

Earth's Observatory: NASA's searchable directory of landform images.

Landforms Examples
The list below includes some of the more classic landform examples using a map of Point Reyes Peninsula (Located just 30 miles north of San Francisco) as an illustration.

Landforms on Topographic Maps
This web page has links to examples of landforms depicted on topographic
maps

Fjords Landforms created by glacial erosion.

How do glaciers affect the land?
Fjords, glaciated valleys, horns, kettle lakes and drumlins

Landform Photos - 9 categories to choose from

Landform Photos - 19 categories from Pic4Learning

US Fish and Wildlife Images - Enter your landform into the "quick search" box.

Amazing Picture Machine - Type landform in the box that says "Type text here" and click search.

Search Engines
Google Image Search

Yahoo Image Search

Tips for a successful search

• Be specific. For example, instead of "landform" search for "mesa".
• When you find an image you'd like to import - double click to find the largest image possible. If the image is too small, it will pixulate (get blurry) when you enlarge it.
• Click the "control key" + click image. Select "copy image".

HyperStudio - story board

Earth's Land
Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, Trivia

Bingo Cards
Enlarge and copy for each student. You may have to crop the board if there are too many spaces on it for your activity.