Landforms I
Landforms II
Vocab
Specific Landforms
Maps Review
100
a large area of nearly flat land
What is a plain?
100
a rounded, raised piece of land, lower than a mountain
What is a hill
100
the study of earth and all the different kinds of things on it
What is geography?
100
rounded mountains that stretch from Maine to Alabama
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
shows the borders of states and countries, tends to be colorful
What is a political map?
200
a high, flat area that rises steeply above the surrounding land
What is a plateau?
200
tall forms of land that can be jagged or rounded
What are mountains?
200
the shapes that make up the earth's surface
What are landforms?
200
one of the longest rivers in North America
What is the Mississippi River?
200
a map that shows shapes of the earth, such as mountains, hills, and plains
What is a landform map?
300
a low, bowl-shaped landform surrounded by higher land
What is basin or valley?
300
an area of land that is surrounded by water on all sides
What is an island?
300
the surroundings in which people, plants, or animals live
What is the environment?
300
Jagged mountains that stretch through the western United States
What are the Rocky Mountains?
300
a map that shows features of the earth, like climate and temperature
What is a physical map?
400
the land along an ocean
What is a coast?
400
a narrow waterway that empties into an ocean, gulf, or sea
What is a river?
400
the height of land above the level of the sea
What is elevation?
400
wide plains that stretch for hundreds of miles in the central area of the United States; good for farming
What are the Interior Plains?
400
a map that shows how to travel from one place to another
What is a transportation map?
500
a place where very little rain falls
What is a desert?
500
An area of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides (ex: Florida)
What is a peninsula?
500
land our goverment sets aside to protect
What is a National Park?
500
a narrow, flat strip of land along the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Coastal Plain?
500
a map that shows things that have happened in the past
What is a historical map?
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