Landforms Vocabulary Flash Cards

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A physical feature that allows travel and/or trade

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Transportation Corridor

Front

Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas

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Isthmus

Front

Level land, usually low elevation, often covered with grasses

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Plain

Front

Low area surrounded by higher land

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Basin

Front

Place where a river or stream begins

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Source of a River

Front

Place where a river or stream flows into a larger body of water

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Mouth of a River

Front

Coast area partially enclosed by land, land curves inward

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Bay

Front

Part of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land

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Gulf

Front

Large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land

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Sea

Front

Narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water

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Strait