Vocabulary
- Mountain: high elevation on the Earth's surface, which can be grouped in mountain ranges
- Valleys: areas of lowland surrounded by uplands (normally mountains), often with a river running through
- Plateau: large areas of flat or slightly hilly land and unlike plains, higher than the land around them
- Plains: large areas of flat or slightly hilly land not much higher then the sea level, formed by accumulation of sediment by erosion
- Glacier: large mass of ice that forms at the top of a mountains and moves like a river
- Stream: flow of water with less volume than a river, which can dry up at certain times of the year
- Delta: Accumulation of materials (sand and stones) deposited by the river in a shallow part of the coast where it meets the sea and often triangular-shape
- Estuary: mouth of a river open to the sea originates on coasts with strong tides
- Gulf: Are deep inlets of the sea
- Beaches:Are formed on low coasts by the accumulation of sand and gravel
- Capes:Are large areas of high coastal land that stick out into the sea
- Cliffs: are high, steep rock faces, especially at the edge of the sea
- Continental shelf: is a submerged plain, which is an underwater extension of a continent
- Abyssal plain: is a large expanse of land at the bottom of the ocean at round 5500m deep
- Continental slope: is the incline from the continental platform down to the abyssal plain
- Isthmus: a narrow strip of land with water on both sides that connects to larger land mosses
- Bay: part of a large body of water that extends to the shorelir
- Island: a land mass smaller than a continent surrounded by water
- Channel: wide straight or waterway between two land masses that lie close
- Lake: a body of fresh or salt water with land around all sides
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