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U3 Our Environment
Landforms and Bodies of Water Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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basin | a depression or sunken area of land |
bay | a body of water with land on all three sides that is smaller than a gulf |
canal | a man made strait |
continents | large land masses |
glacier | a huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land |
gulf | a large body of water surrounded by land on all three sides |
hill | a raised area of land with a rounded top |
ice cap | a glacier on top of a mountain spreading down all sides |
inlet | a long or narrow indent in the shoreline |
island | land surrounded by water |
isthmus | a narrow strip of land that connects two larger ones |
lake | a large body of water surrounded by land |
landform | a natural feature of a land surface |
ocean | the whole body of salt water between continents |
peninsula | land with water on three sides |
plateau | a mountain with a flat top |
river | a natural flowing body of water larger than a stream or creek |
sea | body of salt water smaller than an ocean basin |
strait | a thin body of water that connects two larger ones |
stream | a small river |
valley | a landform lower than the land around it |