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FinalExam Review 2&3
Chapter 2&3 Terms
Term | Definition | Chapter |
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Channel | Wide strait or waterway between 2 landmasses that lie close to each other | 2 |
Elevation | Height above sea level | 2 |
Landform | Individual features of the land | 2 |
Gulf | Part of a large body of water that extends inland; larger than a bay | 2 |
Harbor | A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely | 2 |
Hurricane | Violent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rainfall | 2 |
Island | Land completely surrounded by water | 2 |
Lake | A sizeable inland body of water | 2 |
Mountain | Land with steep sides that rise sharply (1,000 ft or more) from surrounding land | 2 |
Mountain Range | A series of connected mountains | 2 |
Peninsula | Body of land juttingout into a lake or an ocean surrounded on 3 sides by water | 2 |
Plain | Area of low land at low elevation; covered with grass | 2 |
Plateau | Flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 300-3,000 ft high | 2 |
Physical Feature | Characteristics of place-naturally occurring like landforms,climate,and resources | 2 |
River | Large natural stream of water that runsthrough land | 2 |
Sea | Large body of water partially or competely surrounded by land | 2 |
Strait | Narrow stretch ofwater joining 2 larger bodies of water | 2 |
Ocean | 1 one the 4 major bodies of salt water that surround the continents | 2 |
Volcano | Mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth | 2 |
Valley | Area of lowland between hills and mountains | 2 |
Climate | Usual predicatble pattern of weather over a long period of time | 3 |
Current | Moving streams of water in the world's oceans; affects climate | 3 |
Hurricane | Voilent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rainfall | 3 |
High-Latitude Climate | Cold climate lies from 60 degrees north to the North Pole to 60 degrees south to the South Pole | 3 |
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Bay | Part of a large body of water that extends into the shoreline | 2 |