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Final Exam Review 2
Ch.2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bay | A pert of a large body of water that extends into the shoreline |
| Channel | Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to eachother |
| Current | Moving streams of water in the world's oceans; affects climate |
| Elevation | Height above sea level |
| Landform | Individual features of the land |
| Gulf | Part of a large body of water that extends inland; larger than a bay |
| Harbor | A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely |
| Island | Land completely surrounded by water |
| Lake | A sizeable inland body of water |
| Mountain | Land with steep sides that rise sharply (1,000 ft/more) from surrounding land |
| Mountain Range | A series of connected mountains |
| Peninsula | A body of land jutting out into a lake/ocean surrounded on three sides of water |
| Plain | Area of lowland at low elevation; covered in grass |
| Plateau | Flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 300-3,000ft high |
| Physical Features | Characteristics of a place naturally occuring like landforms, climate, recources |
| River | Large natural stream of water that runs through land |
| Sea | Large body of water partially or fulls surrounded by land |
| Strait | Narrow streach of water joining two larger bodies of water |
| Ocean | One of the four major bodies of salt water that surroundes the continents |
| Volcano | Mountain created as a liquid; rock and ash erupt from inside the Earth |
| Valley | Area ofmlowland between hills and mountains |