Play-Doh Landforms
Use your Play-Doh to make the
landform shown in the picture. Then
write down notes.
Mountain
Volcano
Island
Often an underwater mountain or volcano
Valley
Low land BETWEEN mountains or hills
Glacier
Frozen snow
A frozen river
Canyon
Cliffs created on both sides of a river; there MUST
be a river
Delta
Fan-like piece of
land at a river
mouth
Plateau
Land higher than the surrounding land, usually
flat and with sloped sides
Butte
Flat land higher than
the surrounding land,
but with steep sides
Mesa
A large, wide
butte
Plain
Low land mostly flat or with low hills that can
have grasses, shrubs, or a few trees.
Prairie
Plain with grass and shrubs, WITHOUT trees
Steppe
A plain that only has trees near rivers or lakes, but
is almost a desert
Bay
Ocean mostly surrounded by land; waters are
usually calmer than in other parts of the ocean
Peninsula
Land that juts out
into the ocean and
is mostly
surrounded by
water
Flood Plain
Plain by a river that gets flooded periodically,
leaving the soil EXTREMELY fertile
Sand Dune
Hill made of sand that is eroded
Cliff
Nearly vertical exposure of rock