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Valley Valley: an area of generally flat land extending inland many miles and drained or watered. BASIN Basin: land drained by a river; land surrounded by higher land. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Valley


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Valley
  • Valley an area of generally flat land extending
    inland many miles and drained or watered.

2
BASIN
  • Basin land drained by a river land surrounded
    by higher land. In some cases, a basin has a
    lake that has no outlet to the ocean.

3
BAY
  • Bay an inlet of the sea or other body of water,
    usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same
    general character part of a body of water that
    extends into land.

4
CANAL
  • Canal an artificial waterway constructed for
    navigation or for the movement of water.

5
CAPE
  • Cape a point or extension of land jutting into
    the water that is usually smaller or thinner than
    a peninsula.

6
DELTA
  • Delta soil deposited at the mouth of a river.
    Alluvial plain formed at the mouth of a river
    where the stream loses velocity and deposits part
    of its load of sediment

7
GULF
  • Gulf a large area or ocean that is partially
    enclosed larger than a bay.

8
ISLAND
  • Island a body of land small than a continent,
    surrounded by water.

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MOUNTAIN RANGE
  • Mountain Range a row of connected mountains.

10
PENINSULA
  • Peninsula a portion of land nearly surrounded
    by water and connected with a larger body of land.

11
PLAIN
  • Plain large area of land or nearly level land.
    Plains have different names in different climates
    and cultures (tundras steppesprairies flood
    plains).

12
PLATEAU
  • Plateau elevated, level or nearly level portion
    of earths surface, larger in summit area than a
    mountain and bounded on at least one side by
    steep slopes.

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SEA
  • Sea a body of water that is smaller than an
    ocean

14
STRAIT
  • Strait a narrow channel that connects two
    larger bodies of water

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RIVER SOURCE/MOUTH
  • River Source the place the river begins (in
    highlands)
  • River Mouth the part of the river where its
    waters empty into a larger body of water.
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