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