Landforms Geography Posters, Art Print, & Charts Index
for geography and social studies classrooms, home schools.

Landforms are topographical (topos = place + graphy = to write) characteristics of the surface of the Earth (and other planets) that have evolved through plate tectonics, volcanos, erosion due to wind, water, and glaciers. Terrain describes the vertical dimension (elevation and slope) of topography.

Continents, large continuous landmasses, are the largest landforms. Oceans are the largest water bodies.

BAY, GULF, HEADLAND-
Chesapeake Bay from Space

A bay is a body of water that is partly enclosed by land and is usually smaller than a gulf; there could be many bays on a gulf, for instance Mobile Bay is on the Gulf of Mexico.

A sound or inlet is a narrow arm of water between steep slopes or cliffs; a fjord is such an inlet.

Land surrounded by water on three sides is a headland and are also called a peninsula, promontory, or cape.

CONTINENTS
Continents Poster Series
Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, Australia, Antarctic

A continent (L. continere for "to hold together") refers to a large continuous mass of land on the planet Earth having non-submerged land and geologically significant borders. Depending on the discipline defining a continent, there are as many as seven, or as few as four, i.e. North and South America combined as "the Americas", or Europe and Asia as Eurasia.

DESERT
Desert Biome Poster

A desert, with its very dry environment with extreme temperatures, has limited animal and plant life. The biggest desert: Sahara (Africa); driest: Atacama (Chile) and Lut (Iran); coldest: Gobi (Asia) and the desert on the Antarctica continent. A biome is the distinctive community of plants and animals of a place (bio=life) and is a result of the terrain and latitude of the landmass.
• more biome posters

ISLAND-
Hawaii State Map

available at-
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barewalls.com

Islands are bodies of land surrounded by water, a chain of islands is called an archipelago. Australia is a continent that is also an island. Madagascar is an island nation; Japan, and the Philippines are nations situated on archipelagos.

MESA / PLATEAU / BUTTE / BLUFF-
A rainbow touches down over Rainbow Plateau following a summer thunder storm, Photographic Print

A mesa is a land formation with steep walls and a flat area on top.
A plateau is a large, flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land.
A butte is a flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides, Georgia O'Keeffe's Pedernal is a butte.
A bluff is a very steep hill or small cliff often next to a river or ocean.

MONOLITH-
Uluru / Ayers Rock

• more National Parks
• Australia posters

Great Mountains Posters
Adirondack, Alps, Andes, Himalaya, Rockies...

A mountain is a very tall, high, natural place - mountains are higher than hills. Earth's tallest mountains are Mt. Everest (Himalayas) and K-2 (Karakoram).

The interconnected body of salt water (saline) that covers the planet Earth is called the World Ocean and is currently divided into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic (ranked here largest to smallest) by continents and archipelagos. Seas, bays, gulfs, straits, etc. are names for smaller areas of oceans.

Stream is the scientific term for any naturally flowing waterway. River refers to a very large stream. Streams always flow downhill. Its source can be a spring, lake, or gathering of many smaller streams; the flow ends in an ocean or sea, at its delta. Rivers can meander over relatively flat land or descend in rapids & waterfalls when the elevation changes quickly. The area a stream collects water from is called its watershed.

Understanding Earth Science using Satellite Imagery Chart

• Earth Science / geology posters

Exquisite shading gives the illusion of a black-and-white photograph. Only water and land features are named. Laminated. 94 cm x 147 cm.

The Earth's Fractured Surface Map,
Art Print

National Geographic map shows the tectonic plates in their current configuration, and describes how landforms are reshaped over millions of years. It is printed at a scale of 1 inch to every 757 miles.

• maps posters