Landforms and Waterbodies
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tesselations on March 20, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 desert | A dry place with little rain |
| river | a long body of water that flows across the land |
| plateau | an area of level land rising above flat land |
| continent | One of the main land masses on Earth |
| hill | land that rises above the land around it |
| lake | a body of water with land all around it |
| forest | a large area covered with trees and undergrowth |
| valley | low land between hills or mountains |
| ocean | a very large body of salt water |
| penisula | land that has water on three sides |
| island | land that has water all around it |
| mountain | the highest kind of land |
| iceberg | a huge block of floating ice that has broken off a glacier |
| swamp | a low, wet area with trees and high shrubs |
| waterfall | a stream of water that falls from a high place |
| plain | flat land |
| volcano | a hole in the Earth's crust through which lava, gasses and ash are released |
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