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ECE Social Studies 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| archipelago | a group of islands; example - Hawaiian Islands |
| atoll | a coral island that surrounds a lagoon; example - Maldives |
| barrier island | a band of beach parallel to the mainland that protects the shore from the effects of the ocean; example - Clearwater Beach, Florida |
| continent | seven great divisions of land on the globe; example - Africa, North America |
| deciduous forest | a forest of trees that lose their leaves seasonally |
| delta | a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or standing water; example - Mississippi Delta, Nile River delta |
| desert | a barren area with little precipitation; living conditions are not easy for plants and animals; can be hot or cold; example - Sahara, Antartica |
| fjord | a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs: Skelton Inlet, Antartica |
| forest | a dense growth of trees and underbrush covering a large tract; Tongrass National Forest, Alaska |
| grassland | land on which the natural dominant plant forms are grasses and herbs; North American prairies |
| ice caps | glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center; Greenland Ice Sheet |
| island | tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent; Ireland |
| isthmus | narrow strip of land connecting two large land areas otherwise separated by bodies of water; Isthmus of Panama connecting North and South America |
| mountain | large area of raised land formed through tectonic movement or volcanic activity; Mount St Helens |
| mountain range | a series of mountains or mountain ridges closely related in position and direction; Andes, Rocky Mountains |
| oceans | whole body of salt water that covers nearly 3/4 of the surface of the earth; Atlantic, Pacific |
| peninsula | land mass mostly surrounded by water4 and connected to a larger area of land; Florida |
| plains | extensive area of level or rolling, treeless country; The Great Plain |
| plateaus | usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side; Antarctic Plateau |
| rain forest | a woodland with annual rainfall of 100 inches and heavy tree canopy; Amazon Rainforest |
| rivers | a large system of natural flowing water; Amazon River |
| seas | a body of saltwater that is partially enclosed by land; Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea |
| taiga | a moist, subarctic forest of conifers that begins where the tundra ends; Alaska, Canada |
| tundra | a level or rolling, treeless plan that is characteristic of arctic regions, consists of black mucky soil, frozen subsoil, has mosses, lichens, herbs; Arctic tundra |
| valleys | an elongated depression of Earth's surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains; Yosemite Valley, Grand Canyon |
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