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Question | Answer |
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Earth's Largest land area's | Continents |
Mountain | High rocky land |
Latitude | horizontal parallel lines that circle the Earth from west to East measuring degrees from north to south |
The north south lines of the earth's grid that measure degrees from east to west | Longitude |
Define Ocean | great body of salt water that covers almost 2/4 of the Earth's surface |
Gulf | a large bay- an arm of an ocean or sea extending into the land |
any large body of walt water smaller than an ocean, partly or wholly enclosed by land | Sea |
Bay | a part of a sea or lake that extends into the land |
channel | the bed of a stream or river |
tributary | a stream that flows into a larger stream or body of water |
inlet | a narrow strip of water extending from a larger body of water into the land or between islands |
isthmus | a narrow strip of land having water in either side, connecting two large bodies of land |
delta | a deposit of earth and sand, usually three-sided, that collects at the mouth of some rivers. |