A landform is a natural physical feature of a planet. At the top level, this includes oceans and continents and goes all the way down to hills and other relatively small formations. Landforms note the shape of the land and do not include ecosystems such as forests or desserts. They also do not include anything man-made such as canals. The following are common types of landforms.
Archipelago
Atoll
Badlands
Basins
Bays
Beaches
Blowholes
Bluffs
Buttes
Calderas
Canyons
Capes
Caves / Sea Caves
Channels
Cliffs
Coasts / Shorelines
Continents
Coral Reefs
Coves
Dunes
Escarpments
Estuaries
Fjords
Glaciers
Gorges
Gulfs
Gullies
Hills
Impact Craters
Inlets
Islands
Islets
Lagoons
Lakes / Dry Lakes
Mid-ocean Ridges
Mounds
Mountain Pass
Mountains / Mountain Ranges
Ocean Basins
Oceanic Trenches
Oceans
Peninsulas
Plains
Plateaus
Ponds
Ravines
Ridges
Rivers
Sandbanks
Seas
Shoals
Springs
Straits
Summits
Swamps
Tide Pools
Valleys
Volcanoes
Waterfalls
Wetlands
Badlands are areas that have been heavily eroded.A bluff is a rounded cliff that borders a shoreline. A butte is a tower of rock with steep sides and a flat top.
A caldera is a collapsed volcano that has created a depression.A cape is a narrow highland that extends out into a body of water.A channel is a long, narrow body of water that is confined such that it is not a river.
Coves are small sheltered bays.An escarpment is a long cliff or slope that separates two flat areas.An estuary is the tidal mouth of a large river.A fjord is a long, deep inlet that reaches far inland. A gorge is a narrow valley surrounded by a cliff or steep slope. Typically formed by a river.A gulf is a very large bay.
A lagoon is a body of water thinly separated from a larger body of water.A shoal is a submerged ridge, bank or bar. These are often shallow enough to be a danger to ships.A swamp is essentially a permanently flooded forest with both trees and water.
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