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Term | Definition |
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part of large body of water that exstends into shoreline | bay |
wide straight or waterway between two lands that lie close to each other | channel |
height above sea level | elavation |
features of land | landform |
part of large body of water that enstends inland: larger than a bay | gulf |
place along a shorline where ships ancor | harbor |
land complete surrounded in water | island |
a sizeable inland body of water | lake |
land with steep sides that rise sharply from surrounded land (1,000 ft. up or +) | mountain |
a series of connected mountains | mountain range |
body of land surrounded by water on three sides | peninsula |
area of low land at low elavation; covered with grass | plain |
flat or rolling land at high elavation usually 300-3,0000 ft high | plateau |
characterstics of a place-naturally occuring like landforms, climate, resources | physical feature |
large naturel stream of water that runs through land | river |
large body of water partially or completely surrounded by land | sea |
narrow strecth of water joining two larger bodies of water | strait |
one of four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents | ocean |
mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth | volcano |
area of lowland between hills and mountains | valley |