Landform vocabulary practice just got a whole lot more exciting!

If you want your earth science and geography vocabulary lessons to feel active, engaging, and hands-on, this Landforms Vocabulary Slap It! Card Game is the perfect blend of fun and learning.

This interactive landform card game gives kids repeated practice with landform vocabulary, earth science terms, and geography features in a way that feels like playtime instead of drill time.

With 24 real-world landform vocabulary words, matching pictures, and kid-friendly definitions, your students get the repetition they need without losing interest.

Perfect for science centers, geography units, small-group instruction, and homeschool co-ops, this vocabulary review game brings energy to any landform lesson.

Use it to introduce new landform terms, reinforce earth science vocabulary, or spiral review key concepts throughout your geography unit. Either way, this Landform Slap It! Game will quickly become a must-have resource in your classroom.

What’s Included in the Landform Vocabulary Slap It! Card Game

72 Landform Vocabulary Cards in 3 Formats for Flexible Play

• 24 landform vocabulary word cards (examples: isthmus, canyon, delta, plateau)

• 24 landform picture cards with clear visuals to support recognition

• 24 definition cards using simple, student-friendly earth science language

24 Unique Landform Terms

Students review a wide range of landforms including mountains, hills, valleys, islands, peninsulas, plains, glaciers, and more. This variety makes the game ideal for any landform unit, geography lesson, or earth science curriculum.

Multiple Ways to Play

Instructions include ideas for Slap It!, Matching, Memory, and Go Fish. Every option strengthens vocabulary comprehension, visual discrimination, and science literacy.

Built-In Differentiation

Choose from picture cards, definition cards, or vocabulary word cards to adjust difficulty for:

• ELL learners

• emerging readers

• intervention groups

• advanced geography enthusiasts

The clean borders and bold visuals make organizing the landform cards simple for busy teachers.

Skills Strengthened with the Landform Vocabulary Review Game

Primary Academic Skills

Landform vocabulary identification
Students match geography words with visuals and definitions to build authentic understanding of landform features.

Reading landform definitions
Short, supportive definitions help learners connect text, picture, and meaning in earth science contexts.

Visual discrimination
Kids compare similar landforms like mesas vs. plateaus or hills vs. mountains to build stronger geography knowledge.

Science and geography literacy
Children develop key vocabulary needed for success in earth science and map skills.

Secondary Skills

Turn-taking and collaboration
Great for small groups, partnerships, and co-op learning environments.

Confidence building
The active, game-based style encourages participation from reluctant learners.

Memory and recall
Matching words, pictures, and definitions improves long-term vocabulary retention.

Flexible thinking
Students learn to identify landforms across multiple formats and contexts.

✋ How to Play the Landform Vocabulary Slap It! Game

1. Choose one card format to be your CENTER pile and place it face down.

2. Deal the remaining formats to players as the PLAYING pile.

3. Flip the top CENTER card.

4. In order, players flip their top card into a discard pile.

5. When a match appears, SLAP IT! The first player to slap wins the pile.

6. Keep going until cards are gone or time is up.

7. Player with the most cards wins.

Players can match landform pictures to definitions, definitions to vocabulary words, or landform words to visuals depending on your learning goal.

Differentiation Ideas for Landform Vocabulary Practice

• Start with just two formats to support emerging readers.

• Add extra definition cards for focused science vocabulary work.

• Introduce familiar landforms first, then build up to more complex terms.

• Play Memory or Go Fish for quieter, comprehension-focused practice.

• Use picture cards as the center pile to support ELLs and visual learners.

This landform card game adapts beautifully to your students’ needs and grows with them throughout your unit.

Where to Use the Landforms Slap It! Game

• Earth science and geography centers

• Small-group vocabulary lessons

• Whole-class warm-ups

• Academic intervention groups

• Sub plans

• Homeschool or co-op science

• Speech therapy vocabulary practice

• ELL/ESL landform vocabulary development

Use this throughout your landform unit or all year long as a quick spiral review of geography terms.

Standards Alignment

✔ Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Supports DCI ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems and helps students identify and describe physical features of Earth.

✔ Common Core ELA Standards
Strengthens vocabulary acquisition and use:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.4

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4

Let your kids slap, match, sort, and giggle their way through landform mastery while building real science vocabulary skills. This Landform Slap It! Game makes earth science unforgettable!

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