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land forms vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| plain | a flat or gently rolling area of land with only moderate changes in elevation. |
| tributary | a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water. |
| glacier | an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers. |
| strait | Often, straits. ( used with a singular verb ) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water. |
| island | a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent. |
| peninsula | an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. |
| plateau | a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons. |
| isthmus | a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land. |
| delta | A river delta is low-lying plain or landform that occurs at the mouth of a river near where the river flows into the ocean or other body of water. |
| floodplain | a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding. |
| rift | an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink. |
| archipelago | a large group or chain of islands |
| bog | an area or stretch of such ground. |
| fjord | a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion. |
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