Vocabulary 1
A row of connected mountains
Mountain Range
A mound of raised land smaller than a mountain
A hill
A mountain range
Rocky Mts. Or Appalachian Mts.
A desert
Sonoran Desert or Mojave Desert
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Island
Low land along an ocean
A coastal plain
A low land area surrounded by higher land
A basin
A gulf
Gulf of Mexico
A coastal plain
Atlantic Coastal Plain or Pacific Coastal Plain
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Peninsula
Flat land that is raised higher than the land around it
Plateau
A dry region that gets very little rain
A desert
A river system
Mississippi River
A basin
The Great Basin
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Volcano
An inland body of water connected to a larger body of a water
A bay
A low piece of land between two mountains
A Valley
A plain
The Interior Plains
A Canyon
Grand Canyon
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Desert
A narrow strip of land connects two larger areas of land
An isthmus
A part of a sea or ocean that cuts into a mass of land
A gulf
A Plateau
Colorado Plateau
A Valley
Death Valley or Central Valley
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Plateau