Landforms Worksheets

Mountains, hills, valleys, plains and islands, and the rivers, lakes and oceans between them: a labeled landforms picture, a page to label, a land or water sort and matching.

Up the Mountain reader cover
Free reader · Kindergarten

Up the Mountain

A six-page picture book to print, cut and staple: one short line on every page, and three questions to talk about on the back.

Up the Mountain, page 1: This is a hill.Up the Mountain, page 2: This is a valley.Up the Mountain, page 3: This is a river.Up the Mountain, page 4: This is a lake.Up the Mountain, page 5: This is a mountain.Up the Mountain, page 6: I can see the ocean!
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Free Landforms worksheets

Each is a PDF to print right away, in black and white. Sheets with right answers have the answer key on page 2.

Landforms Picture worksheet preview

Landforms Picture

K-2

One big landscape with eight landforms and bodies of water labeled: mountain, valley, hill, plain, river, lake, ocean and island. Prints landscape.

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Land or Water? worksheet preview

Land or Water?

K-2

Eight landform cards to color, cut out and glue under Land or Water. Answer key on page 2.

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Match the Landform worksheet preview

Match the Landform

K-1

Match five landform words to their pictures. Answer key on page 2.

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Draw a Landform worksheet preview

Draw a Landform

K-2

Draw a mountain, hill, lake or any landform you have seen, then write its name.

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The whole unit in one place: all 10 Landforms worksheets in one print-ready file with every answer key, and the Up the Mountain reader in both editions, kindergarten and grades 1-2 (the grades 1-2 book has fuller sentences on every page).

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Teaching landforms in K-2

Read the free Up the Mountain book first: Max the moose climbs a hill, walks through a valley, crosses a river, stops by a lake and climbs a mountain, where he can see the ocean. Each page names one landform and the grades 1-2 book says what it is.

Then color the labeled landforms picture together, and use Label the Landforms to see what children remember. The Land or Water? sort is a quick check that children know which are landforms and which are bodies of water. For how the land is made and changed, see Earth and volcanoes, rocks and the water cycle in the science section.

Frequently Asked Questions

What landforms do kids learn in kindergarten to 2nd grade?
Mountains, hills, valleys, plains and islands, and the bodies of water around them: rivers, lakes and oceans. Second graders often add canyons, deserts and peninsulas.
Is the landforms worksheet free?
Yes. The labeled landforms picture, Label the Landforms (with an answer key), the Land or Water? sort, Match the Landform and Draw a Landform are free PDFs in black and white.
Is a lake a landform?
A lake is a body of water, not a landform. Landforms are shapes of the land, like mountains and valleys. The Land or Water? sort helps children tell the two apart.