Lesson Two Geography HONORS

What is a peninsula?

• a narrow valley with steep sides

• A body of water partially enclosed by land

• an piece of land extending and being touched by water on three sides

• a portion of the ocean that penetrates land

Archipelago

• a chain group of islands

• an area of flat land

• a fracture or zone of fractures between to blocks of rock

• a lake, the earths lowest elevation that's on land

Dead Sea

• a body of water surrounded by land

• a portion of the ocean that penetrates land

• a lake, the earth's lowest elevation that's on land

Continent

• a large body of water that takes up 71% of the earth

• an area of relatively level high ground

• slabs of granitic rocks that are many miles thick, they rise above the level of the ocean

• an area of land between hills and mountains

RIver

• wearing away of rock and transporting sediments

• he movement of continents resulting from the motion of tectonic plates

•  a body of water that is surrounded by land

• a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.

a strip of land with water  on 2 sides connecting 2 larger areas to each other

• Pangaea

• Isthmus

• Erosion

• Faults

Valley

• a portion of the ocean that penetrates land

•   a body of water that is surrounded by land

• An area of land between hills and mountians

• a body of land completely surrounded by water

Pangaea

•  the original continent before it broke apart

• an area of relatively level high ground

• :a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle

• an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year

Plateau

• a body of land completely surrounded by water

• an area of flat land

• wearing away of rock and transporting sediments

• an area of relatively level high ground

Erosion

• a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock

• The wearing away of rock and transporting sediments

• an area of flat land

• a chain groupd of islands