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Cold and Vocabulary
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A Little of Everything
100
A chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically?
What is an archipelago?
100
An area of land drained by a given river and its branches. Surrounded by lands of higher elevation.
What is a basin?
100
A large thick body of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
100
A large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land.
What is a sea?
100
Having to do with earthquakes and the plates of the Earth
What is tectonically?
200
A part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline
What is a bay?
200
A deep narrow valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
200
A narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
200
Land that is higher than other land
What is elevation?
300
A wide straight waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other.
What is a channel?
300
A steep high wall of rock, earth, or ice.
What is a cliff?
300
a narrow stretch of land connecting two larger areas
What is an isthmus?
300
An area of lowland usually between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
300
a series of connected mountains
What is a mountain range?
400
Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline -larger and deeper than a bay.
What is a gulf?
400
Flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth.
What is a delta?
400
land, usually level at a low elevation
What are lowlands?
400
A mountain or hill created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth.
What is a volcano?
400
Area of level, usually at low-elevated and often covered with grasses.
What is a plain?
500
A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely.
What is a harbor?
500
A land area smaller than a continent completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
500
A broad flat-topped landform with steep sides, smaller than a plateau.
What is a mesa?
500
The difference between a gulf and a bay.
What is a gulf is deeper and larger than a bay.
500
An area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300-3000 feet high.
What is a plateau?