Earth’s Landforms

Second Grade Social Studies

Vocabulary

• island• valley• river• lake• hill

• peninsula• mountain• plateau• ocean• plain• canyon

valley

• Low land between hills or mountains.

mountain

• The highest kind of land.

ocean

• A very large body of salt water.

lake

• A body of water with land all around it.

hill

• Land that is higher than land around it, but lower than a mountain.

river

• A long body of water that flows across the land.

island

• A body of land with water all around it.

peninsula

• Land that has water on three sides.

plateau

• An area of flat land, higher than the surrounding country.

plain

•An area of flat land.

canyon

• Long, narrow valley with steep sides.