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| Alluvial Plain | Relatively flat landform created by the opposition of sediment over a long time by one or more rivers | ||||
| Archipelago | Large group or chain of islands | ||||
| Atoll | A ring shaped coral island or ring of several islands linked by underwater coral reefs and contains a lagoon | ||||
| Basin | Low area of land, often surrounded by mountains on the ocean floor or surface of the earth | ||||
| Bay | A body of water forming an indention of the shoreline, larger than a cove,but smaller than a gulf | ||||
| Butte | An isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land | ||||
| Canal | An artificial man-made waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc. | ||||
| Canyon | A deep valley with steep sides often with a stream flowing through it; caused by erosion | ||||
| Cape | Land projecting into water, uusually smaller than a peninsula | ||||
| Cataract | A descent of water over a steep surface; a waterfall, especially one of considerable size; rapids | ||||
| Cay | A small low island;key. | ||||
| Channel | The bed of a stream, river, or other waterway. | ||||
| Cliff | A high steep face of a rock or other earth materials. | ||||
| Continent | One of the main landmasses of the globe, usually considered 7 in number | ||||
| Current | A flowing;flow, as of a river. | ||||
| Delta | A flat alluvial area at the mouth of some rivers where the mainstream splits up into several distributaries. | ||||
| Divide | A ridge that separates area of water flows. | ||||
| Downstream | With or in the direction of the current of a stream toward the mouth. | ||||
| Elevation | The altitude of a place above sea level or ground level. | ||||
| Equator | An imaginary line that circles the globe half way between the north and south poles. | ||||
| Estuary | That part of the mouth or lower course of a river in which the river's current meets the sea's tide. | ||||
| Glacier | A large body if ice | ||||
| Gulf | A portion of sea or ocean, partially surrounded by land | ||||
| Hill | A natural elevation of the Earth's surface, smaller than a mounatin with rounded summit | ||||
| Island | Body of land completely surrounded by water | ||||
| Isthmus | Land that connects 2 larger bodies of land | ||||
| Lake | A body of water completely surrounded by land | ||||
| Lowland | Low or level land in comparison to the adjacent land | ||||
| Marsh | Low-lying wetlands with small plants | ||||
| Meridian | Another name for longitude, measures distance east - west of Prime Meridian | ||||
| Mesa | Broad flat surfaced area that rises sharply from the surrounding area, larger than a butte | ||||
| Mountain | A natural rise in the earth's surface, steep sides, having an elevation of more than 2,000 ft. | ||||
| Mountain Range | A series of mountain ridges similar in direction, form and origin | ||||
| Mouth | The end of a river where it opens to the sea | ||||
| Oasis | A fertile or green spot in a desert | ||||
| Ocean | Large body of salt water that covers 70% of Earth's surface | ||||
| Prairie | A vast area of grassland | ||||
| Parallel | Another name for a line of latitude | ||||
| Peninsula | A body of land nearly surrounded by water | ||||
| Plain | An extensive area of level of lowland, treeless country | ||||
| Plateau | An expanse of relatively level land that rises sharply above bordering land with at least one sharp side | ||||
| Range | A series of mountains | ||||
| Relief | The difference in elevation or slope | ||||
| Reef | a ridge of rocks or sand, often a coral reef, at or near the surface of the water | ||||
| River | a natural stream of water, of a fairly large size, flowing in a definite course or channel | ||||
| Sea | the salt waters that cover the greater part of Earth's surface | ||||
| Seacoast | land that lies adjacent to the ocean or sea; the shoreline | ||||
| Sound | a narrow sea or ocean channel, larger that a strait, that connects two bodies of water; often lies parallel to the coast | ||||
| Source | the origin or starting point of a stream or river | ||||
| Strait | a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water | ||||
| Swamp | wet spongy land with trees and other vegetation, unfit for cultivation | ||||
| Trench | a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor, caused by the subduction of ocean plates | ||||
| Tributary | a stream or river that flows into another larger stream or river |
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on 2011-10-25