Name: ____________________________ Date: _________ Period: _________
Landform Fact Find
Directions: Use the landform trading cards at your table to match the following
landforms with the proper descriptions. Landforms can be used a maximum of two
times. Write the letter of the landform on the line in front of each description.
A. alluvial fan
B. barrier island
C. delta
D. divide
E. kettle lake
F. moraine
G. sandbar
H. sinkhole
_______ 1. A bowl-shaped body of water that was formed as sediment built up
around a block of ice left by a glacier.
_______ 2. The build up of till left behind by a retreating glacier.
_______ 3. A long, narrow island that develops parallel to a coast.
_______ 4. A ridge from which water drains to one side or the other.
_______ 5. An area of land at the end, or mouth, of a river that is formed by the
build up of sediment.
_______ 6. An open basin that forms when the roof of a cave becomes so thin that it
falls in.
_______ 7. A fan-shaped deposit of sediment at the base of a mountain.
_______ 8. A ridge of sand built up by the action of waves and current.
_______ 9. Weathering and erosion usually wears away soft rock like limestone to form
this landform that can be found anywhere on Earth’s surface, but most of
the time, they’re in the news when a street collapses.
_______ 10. Our continent has one of these that runs from Alaska to Mexico.
_______ 11. This landform protects the coast from the full force of powerful storm
waves.
_______ 12. Thanks to glaciers that were around thousands of years ago, the state of
Minnesota has over 10,000 of these!
_______ 13. This landform may be found in valleys carved out by glaciers.
_______ 14. This landform allows people to stand in water that is far away from the
shore of a lake or an ocean.
_______ 15. The Mississippi River has a large one of these where it empties into the
Gulf of Mexico.