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4th Geography FK2
CCS 4th grade geography FK2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| desert | a dry area of land with fewer than 10 inches of precipitation a year: Sahara Desert |
| Sahel | a semidry rolling plain south of the Sahara Desert |
| savanna | a tropical grassland with few trees |
| oasis | a small area in a desert that has water |
| rain forest | a dense forest with at least 160 inches of annual rainfall |
| river | a large natural stream of water that empties into an ocean, lake, or other natural body of water:Nile River,Congo River |
| lake | a large inland body of fresh or salt water: Lake Victoria |
| mountain | a natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising more or less abruptly to a summit and attaining an altitude greater than that of a hill, usually greater than 2,000 ft (610 m):Mount Kilimanjaro |
| mountain range | a group, or chain, of mountains: Atlas Mountains |
| cape | a pointed landmass projecting into a body of water:Cape of Good Hope |
| strait | a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water: Strait of Gibraltar |
| island | a body of land completely surrounded by water:Madagascar |
| sea | a large body of saltwater surrounded partly by, or located next to, land:Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea |
| ocean | a large body of saltwater that separates continents: Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean |