Landforms List

Arch: an opening through a headland fromed by sea erosion (include stacks, blowholes, sea caves, geos)
Bay: part of a body of salt water that reaches into the land (include headland and bayhead beaches)
Beach: a shoreline made up of loose material (include longshore drift, sand dunes, spits, tombolos)
Branch (tributary): a river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream
Cave: a naturally formed underground passage (includes dripstone features)
Channel: a narrow deep waterway connecting two larger bodies of water; the deepest part of the waterway.
Cliff: a high, steep slope of rock or soil (include wave cut platform)
Coast: land along the sea or ocean (hard/soft, rates of erosion)
Confluence point (Fork): the place where a stream or tributary joins a river
Coum/Corrie/Cirque: armchair hollow in an upland area (include tarn, arete, pyramidal peak)
Delta: land built up by deposits of sand and silt at the mouth of some rivers
Drainage basin: an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries. (Should include Watershed, stream order)
Esker: sand and gravel deposits laid down by a sub glacial stream
Estuary: place where a river empties into a larger body of water; the end of a river
Fjord:a narrow inlet of the sea between high banks or cliffs created by glaciers
Glacial spillway/overflow: formed by rivers of meltwater cutting into the landscape.
Hill: a raised part of the earth’s surface with sloping sides; old mountain which because of erosion has become rounder and shorter
Inlet: small part of a body of water that reaches into a coast
Island: an area of land completely surrounded by water
Isthmus: narrow strip of land with water on both sides connecting two larger pieces of land
Lake: a large body of water surrounded by land
Levees: natural ridges bordering a river channel in its old age stage
Limestone pavement: Bare limestone surface from which soil and loose rocks have been stripped (includes clints, grykes)
Meander: series of gently curving loops (includes point bars and cutbanks)
Moraine: mounds of material carried and laid down by a glacier (include drumlins, crag and tail)
Mountain: high, rocky land, usually with steep sides and a pointed or rounded top, higher than a hill
Ox bow lakes: a cutoff meander
Peninsula: piece of land that extends into a body of water and is surrounded on three sides by water
Plain: a broad, flat or gently rolling area; usually low in elevation
Plateau: flat highland area with one steep face; elevated plain
Scree slope: Collection of rock fragments at the base of a slope due to freeze thaw action
Slope: a study of mass movement processes acting upon a slope
Sound: a wide channel connecting two bodies of water or an inlet between the mainland and islands
Swallow Hole: an opening in the bed of a river through which a river disappears from the surface to flow underground.
Tor: rock outcrop formed by weathering
Turlough: seasonal lake in lowlying limestone region
Valley: low land between hills or mountains (include river,glacial features)
U-shaped valley: a well developed glaciated valley (include troughs, truncated spurs, hanging valleys, ribbon lakes, fiord)
Waterfall: place where running water makes a sheer drop, usually over a cliff (include plunge pools, gorges,rapids)