Landforms

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Landforms

• An Introduction

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• What are landforms?

What are some landforms youve heard of or know
about?
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Island

• An area of land completely
• surrounded by water.

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Archipelago

•     a group of many islands

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Peninsula

• piece of land that extends into a body of water
  and is surrounded on three sides by water

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Basin

• a bowl shaped landform
• surrounded by higher land

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Canyon

• narrow valley with steep sides usually created
  by erosion

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Desert

• dry, barren region usually sandy and without
  trees, little rainfall or practical use of land
  unless irrigated

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Does New Jersey have landforms?
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Long Beach Island
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Sandy Hook Peninsula
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