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Geography Landforms and Water Terms

This document defines key geography and landform terms including desert, continent, island, archipelago, rainforest, mountain, glacier, canyon, valley, cape, peninsula, plateau, mesa, plain, erosion, ocean, lake, river source, river mouth, tributary, delta, strait, canal, isthmus, port, gulf, bay, and currents. It provides brief descriptions of each term.

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Geography Landforms and Water Terms

This document defines key geography and landform terms including desert, continent, island, archipelago, rainforest, mountain, glacier, canyon, valley, cape, peninsula, plateau, mesa, plain, erosion, ocean, lake, river source, river mouth, tributary, delta, strait, canal, isthmus, port, gulf, bay, and currents. It provides brief descriptions of each term.

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Geography Landforms and Water Terms

Desert – a very dry area where very few


Continent – very large land masses, 7 on
plants grow, does not have to hot –
the planet (know them?)
Antarctica

Island – land surrounded by water on all Ocean – largest bodies of water, four –
sides know them, all interconnected

Archipelago – large group or chain of


Lake – body of water surrounded by land
islands

Rainforest -- Forest that receives 98-177 in


Source of a river – place where a river
of rainfall per year.
begins, often in mountains or from a spring
Arranged in canopies

Mountain – high rounded or pointed Mouth of a river – place where a river


landform with steep sides, higher than a empties into a larger body of water
hill
Glacier – large ice mass that moves slowly
Tributary – river or stream that flows into a
down a mountain or landform
larger river or stream
Delta – triangular area at the mouth of a
Canyon – a deep, narrow valley with steep
river formed from deposits of sand, silt,
sides
pebbles
Valley – low land area between two
Strait – narrow strip of water connecting
mountains or hills
two large bodies of water
Canal – man made narrow waterway to
Cape – pointed piece of land extending into
connect to large bodies of water
an ocean or other large body of water
Peninsula – body of land surrounded by
Isthmus – narrow strip of land connecting
water on three sides
two large bodies of land
Plateau/Mesa – broad, flat area of land
Port – place on a coastline where ships can
higher than the surrounding land, mesa is
unload goods
smaller than a plateau
Gulf/Bay – part of an ocean or lake
Plain – large area of flat or nearly flat land extending into the land, gulf is larger than a
bay
Currents – steady flow of ocean water in
Erosion – the process of wearing away the
one direction, linked to winds and lunar
land by water or wind.
gravity

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