Unit 2 - THE NATURAL EVIROMENT (GEOGRAPHY)

Mountain: high land mass projecting conspicuously above its surroundings and usually of limited width at its summit.

Valleys: a long depression in the land surface, usually containing a river, formed by erosion or by movements in the earth's crust.

Plateau: elevated, level or nearly level portion of the earth's surface, larger in summit area than a mountain andbounded on at least one side by steep slopes, occurring on land or in oceans.

Plains:  a broad level expanse, as a part of the sea floor or a lunar mare.

Glacier: a slowly moving mass of ice originating from an accumulation of snow. It can either spread outfrom a central massor descend from a high valley.

Stream: A flow of water in a channel or bed, as a brook, rivulet, or small river

Delta: a usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.

Estuary: the part of the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides.

Gulfs: a large area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land, especially a long landlocked portion of seaopening through a strait.

Beaches:  the shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.

Capes: Are large areas of high coastal land that

Cliffs: a steep high rock face, esp one that runs along the seashore and has the strata exposed.

Continental Shelf: a submerged border of a continent that slopes gradually and extends to a point ofsteeper descent to the ocean bottom.

Abyssal Plain: deepwater plains of ocean basins and depressions of epicontinental seas.

Continental Slope: one of the principal elements of the continental margin; it is located between the shelf and the continental rise

Isthmus: A narrow strip os land, with water on both sides, that conects to large land masses.

Bay: Its like a gulff but more closser.

Isand:  A land mass smaller than a continent surrounded by water.

Channel: Wide straight of water way between two land masses that lie close.

Lake: A body of fresh or salt water with land arround all sid.

Caldera: Euge hole left by collapse of volcanic mountain.

Grassland:

Insolation: Sun rays hitting the Earth surface.