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Shes Landform Terms
4th grade geography vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Archipelago | a large group of islands clustered together |
Gulf | a large area of an ocean or a sea partly closed by land; usually bigger than a bay |
Mesa | a hill or mountain with steep sides and a flat top |
Sea | a large body of salt water that is smaller than an ocean |
Bay | a body of water partly closed in by land; smaller than a gulf |
Hill | a raised, rounded landform that is lower than a mountain |
Mountain | a landform that rises high above other land areas |
Strait | a narrow flow of water that connects two bigger bodies of water |
Cape | a pointed piece of land that stretches out into the water; smaller than a peninsula |
Island | a body of land completely surrounded by water |
Oceans | the largest bodies of salt water |
Tributary | a river or stream that joins a larger one |
Channel | a body of water that connects two bigger bodies of water |
Isthmus | a narrow piece of land that joins two larger pieces of land |
Peninsula | land surounded by water on three (3) sides |
Valleys | low areas that separate mountains or hills |
Continent | the largest of all landforms |
Lake | large body of water that is completely surrounded by land |
Plain | an area of mostly flat, treeless land |
Volcano | a cone-shaped opening on earth's surface that spews ash, lava, and gas |
Glacier | a huge mass of ice that moves slowly down a slope or spreads outward over a land surface |
Marsh | muddy, flat lowlands |
River | a large stream of water that empties into another body of water |
Waterfall | a steep fall or flow of water from a high place |