Landforms

The land around us has different shapes. On page 120 of your book, Santoor, you look up nine landform words in a dictionary and label a drawing of hills and mountains. Here is what each word means.

A mountain range is a long line of mountains joined together, like the Himalayas. The summit is the very top of a mountain, its highest point. The slope is the side of a mountain or hill, going up or down. The foot is the bottom of a mountain, where it meets the flat ground; Minam's village is at the foot of the Himalayas.

A hill is raised land, but lower than a mountain. A plateau is high land with a flat top, like a table. A plain is a wide stretch of flat land.

A valley is low land between mountains or hills. A river is water flowing across the land, often down from the mountains, like the small, clear river where Minam had lunch.