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What is an ocean?

ocean* -- a great expanse of salt water.

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What is an island?

island -- a piece of land completely

surrounded by water

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What is a cape?

cape -- A point or head of land projectinginto a body of water

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What is an isthmus?

isthmus* -- a narrow strip of land, like abridge, connecting two larger strips of land

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What is a bay?

bay -- an area of sea partially enclosed byland, smaller than a gulf

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What is a beach?

A beach is a landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists ofloose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle,

pebbles, or cobble. The particles of which the beach is composed can sometimesinstead have biological origins, such as shell fragments or coralline algae fragments.

Beaches often occur along coastal areas, where wave or current action deposits andreworks sediments.

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What is a peninsula?

peninsula* -- a narrow stretch of landsurrounded on three sides by water.

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What is a sea?

sea* -- a relatively large body of water, either part of an ocean that ispartially surrounded by land (the Caribbean Sea), or a body of water that

is completely landlocked (the Caspian Sea is seen in the image above)

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What is a river?

A long body of water that flows across the

land.

The Nile River is the longest river in the world

The Amazon River is in Brazil.

The Mississippi River is the longest river inthe United States.

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What is a delta?

delta -- a place at the river's mouth, wherethe river splits into many different sections,forming a marshy triangle

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What is a tributary?

tributary* -- A stream that flows into alarger stream or other body of water

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What is a flood plain ?

flood plain -- A plain bordering a river andsubject to flooding.

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What is a pond?

pond is a body of water smaller than alake.

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What is a gulf?

gulf* -- A large area of a sea or oceanpartially enclosed by land

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What is a strait?

strait -- A narrow channel of water joiningtwo larger bodies of water (usuallynarrower than a sound).

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What is a swamp?

swamp -- A lowland region

saturated with water.

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What is a lake?

lake* -- A large inland body of fresh wateror salt water

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What is a glacier?

glacier -- A huge mass of ice slowlyflowing over a land mass

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What is a plain?

Plains are broad, nearly level stretches of

land that have no great changes in

elevation. Plains are generally lower than

the land around them; they may be foundalong a coast or inland.

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What is a dune?

dune is a hill or a ridge made of sand.Dunes are shaped by the wind, andchange all the time.

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What is a hill?

hill* -- a small elevation in the earth's

surface

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What is a canyon?

canyon -- A

narrow chasm

with steep cliff

walls, cut intothe earth by

running water

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What is a plateau?

plateau -- an elevated level expanse of land; a tableland.

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A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms aborder between two watersheds such that water falling on one

side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water,

and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the

opposite side of the continent.

What is a continental divide ?

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What is a mountain?

The highest kind of land. They are caused whentwo tectonic places collided.

Types of mountains: Folded, Unwarped, & Fault-Block

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What is a volcano?

volcano -- An opening in the earth's crust through which molten lava,ash, and gases are ejected. Types of volcanoes: Shield, Strato, Dome,

Cinder Cone, and Rhyolite Caldera Complex

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