-Inlet: a thin channel of water that leads inland from the sea.
-Fjords: inlets created by glaciation.
-Headland: a small area of land that projects out into the sea.
-Peninsula: a large scale headland surronded by water on three sides.
-Island: a piece of land completely surronded by water.
-Archipelago: a group of related islands close together.
-Gulf: an area of sea surronded by land on three sides. It forms the shape of an arc.
-Bay: a generally smaller gulf.
-Mountain: a large landform that is higher than the surronded area.
-Mountain range: a continuous chaine of mountains.
-Basin: an area of land that is drained by a river or a lake and that is lower than the surronded area.
-Valley: is a linear depression in the land. Can be a river valley, with a V-shaped form ( due the action of a river), and glaciar valleys, with a U-shaped form ( due the action of a glaciar)
-Plateau: a flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude above sea level.
-Plain: a large, open, flat or slightly undulating area of land.
-Continental shelf: the undersea extension of a continent that descends gradually to depths of around 400m.
-Continental slope: a steep underwater area that links the continental shelf with the ocean floor.
-Abyssal plain: a flat area of the ocean floor. They are found at depths of between 3000 and 4000 m.
-Oceanic trench: a long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of meters deep.
-Oceanic ridge: an underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reaches high altitudes.
-Cape: land that extends into the sea on a continental scale.
-Woop-woop: a place there's nothing and it's far away.
-Drought: when for a long period of time doesn't rain.
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