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SS-Ch. 1 Vocab.
Regions textbook Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 5 Themes of Geography | location, place, human environment interaction, movement, and regions |
| tributary | a stream or a river that flows into a larger stream or river |
| mouth | the place where a river empties into some larger body of water |
| plateau | an area of high, mostly flat land |
| delta | the triangle shaped land at the river's mouth |
| basin | low, bowl-shaped land with higher ground all around |
| Mexico | the country in North America, bordering the southwestern United States |
| continent | one of the seven main areas of land on the earth |
| coastal plain | low land that lies along an ocean |
| peninsula | land almost entirely surrounded by water |
| erosion | the wearing away of the earth's surface |
| hemisphere | half of a sphere, such as a ball or a globe; a half of the earth |
| Canada | a country in northern North America, bordering the United States |
| equator | the imaginary line that splits the earth into a northern half and a southern half |
| floodplain | the land that is drained by a river |
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