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Prine.U.S. Landforms
Review of vocabulary words covered in the TrueFlix featured book, Landforms.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cirque (surk) | a bowl-shaped landform at the head of a glacier |
| delta (del-tuh) | the flat land at the mouth of a river where it flows into a larger body of water. |
| elevation (el-uh-vay-shuhn) | the height above sea level. |
| erodes (i-rohdz) | wears away |
| glaciers (glay-shurz) | large areas of slow-moving ice |
| molten (molten) | liquid because of extreme heat |
| peninsulas (puh-nin-suh-luhz) | stips of land surrounded by water on three sides |
| sea level (see lev-uhl) | the average level of the ocean's surface, used as a starting point from which to measure the height or depth of a place |
| sediment (sed-uh-muhnt) | material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers |
| tributaries (trib-yuh-ter-eez) | streams or small rivers that flow into larger rivers |
| weathering (weth-er-ing) | the process of breaking rocks into smaller pieces |
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