COASTAL LANDSCAPES

beaches and cliffs.

The main landforms found in coastal landscapes are capes, gulfs, pennsulas, islands,

Capes A cape is a piece of land that extends into the

sea.
Gulfs

A Gulfs is an rea on the coast where the sea flows in.

A bay is a medium-sized gulf
A cove is a small gulf

Peninsulas

A pennsula is a piece of land surrounded almost completely

by wter, except for a small rea called isthmus, which connects the
pennsula
to the rest of the coast .( Una pennsula es una porcin de tierra rodeada casi por
completo por el agua, EXCEPTO para un rea pequea llamada istmo que une la pennsula con el resto de la costa)

Islands

An island is a piece of land surrounded completely by wter.

A small island is called an islet.
(Una isla es una porcin de tierra rodeada completamente por el agua, una isla pequea se llama

islote ).

Beaches

A beach is a flat rea on the coast which has sand .

Una playa es un rea en la costa cubierto de arena .

Cliffs

A Cliff is very steep, almost vertical, rocky slope between the sea

and
a high rea of land.( Un acantilado es una empinada, casi vertical,
pendiente rocosa entre el mar y una zona alta de la tierra.

CAPE ----------CABO

GULF--------- GOLFO

BAY----------BAHIA

COVE------- CALA

PENINSULA----------PENINSULA
ISLAND-------- ISLA

ISTHMUS---------- ITSMO
CLIFF------------ ACANTILADO