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Comparing Features
Bodies of Water
Landforms
100
What is the difference between a sea and an ocean? What is the same?
seas are smaller than oceans both are salt water
100
Our world has five of these large bodies of salt water.
What is an ocean?
100
This is the tallest landform with steep sides and a pointed top.
What is a mountain?
200
What do lakes and ponds have in common?
Both are surrounded by land. Both are fresh water
200
This is completely surrounded by land.
What is a lake? or pond?
200
This is the low land between hills and mountains.
What is a valley?
300
What is the difference between a valley and a canyon?
Canyons are deep valleys with steep sides.
300
This is made up of fresh water and is a large body of moving water.
What is a river?
300
This is a cave on the side of a mountain or underground.
What is a cavern?
400
Compare a volcano to a mountain
Volcanoes are mountains. Volcanoes have vents an spew lava.
400
Large body of salt water usually connected to an ocean
Sea
400
This is land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
500
What is the difference between a stream and a river?
Both are flowing. Streams are smaller. Streams flow into rivers; rivers flow into oceans or seas.
500
Our world is covered with 3/4 of this explaining why our planet looks mostly blue.
What is water?
500
This is a deep valley with steep sides which usually consists of a river flowing through it.
What is a canyon?