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Final Exam Review 2
Ch.2 vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |