Mountains
These landforms are usually shorter and less steep than mountains
What are hills?
The desert is so dry because of its lack in this precipitation
Rather than made up of hills, plains are low ____ lands
What is flat?
This body of water often runs through a valley
What is a river(stream)?
Unlike peninsulas, islands have water on this amount of sides
What is all sides?
Located in Southern Iran
What are the Zagros Mountains?
The ground or terrain in the desert is largely made up of this glittery, gold, powdery/coarse substance
What is sand?
The soil in plains is usually described as being this word meaning healthy and full of nutrients
What is rich or fertile?
These Ancient Africans settled and lived along the Nile River Valley
Who are the (Ancient) Egyptians?
These erupting landforms are often found on islands
What are volcanoes?
Humans depend on mountains for this resource
What is coal?
The largest desert in the world, located in northern and central Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
This body of water is used to transport goods out of the Great Plains to lowland areas
What are rivers? (Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers)
Modern day Iraq, where civilization first began
What is Mesopotamia?
Humans interact with the environment in this way when they overfish in Indonesia
What is modify (change)?
Although mountain are physical features they can act as these political boundaries of countries
What are borders?
The process where fertile lands become deserts
What is desertification?
This type of farming is a way humans depend on the plains
Ranching (raising cattle for food)
This early type of human first settled in river valleys, when they gave up their life of following and hunting animals.
What/who are nomads?
This popular vacation site is also an active volcano
What is Bali (Bali, Indonesia)?
A mountain is a natural rise in the earth's surface that usually has what?
A summit or top
These succulent plants are some of the only found in the desert
What is cacti (are cactus)?
Name for the dry period of the Great Plains in the 1930s
What is The Dust Bowl?
This nutrient rich soil is a large factor in the success of early civilizations in river valleys
What is Silt?
Unlike the popular islands, these islands in Alaska are cold and covered in ice.
What are the Aleutian Islands?