Natural Features of a Tract of Land

Natural features of a tract of land crossword clue. The courier-mail quick one crossword question no 1185 on Saturday, 17 June 2017. 7 letters

The answer: TERRAIN or SCENERY

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions.