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Chapter 2
Landforms
Term | Definition |
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Bay | Part of a large body of water ythat extends to shoreline. |
Channel | wide or straight waterway between 2 landmassess. |
Elevation | height above sea level. |
Landform | indiviual features of the land. |
Gulf | Part of large body of water. |
Harbor | a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor. |
Island | land completely surrounded by water. |
Lake | A sizeable inland body of water. |
Tropics | Low alltitude region between the tropic of csncer and capricorn. |
Mountain | Land steep sides that rise sharply 1000feet. |
Mountain Range | A series of connected mountains. |
Peninsula | Body of land jutting out into a lake or an ocean surrounded by 3 sides by water. |
Plain | Area of low land and low elevation covered with grass. |
Plateau | flat or rolling land at high elevationusually 300-3,000 feet. |
Physical Feature | charecteristics of a place naturally occuring like landforms climate ect... |
River | Large natural stream of water that runs through land. |
Sea | Large body of water partizlly or completely surrounded by land. |
Strait | Narrow stretch of water joining 2 larger bodies of water. |
Ocean | One of the 4 major bodies of salt water that surround the continents. |
Volcano | Mountain as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth. |
Valley | Are between lowland + hills + moutains |