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Landforms Project

Published on Nov 30, 2015

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ARCHIPELAGO

  • a sea or stretch of water containing many islands.
  • This is the second largest archipelago named the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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PENINSULA

  • a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
  • Balboa Peninsula, Newport Beach
3.

FJORD

  • a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs.
  • The Fjords in eastern Africa
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ESTUARY

  • An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it.
  • Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in the Gulf of Mexico region
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ATOLLS

  • a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral.
  • Tikehau in the Pacific Ocean
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ISTHMUS

  • is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water that otherwise separates them.
  • An isthmus in the Caribbean Sea
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PLATEAU

  • an area of relatively level high ground consisting of relatively flat ground
  • The Edwards Plateau in eastern Texas
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BAY

  • A bay is a body of water connected to an ocean or lake, formed by an indentation of the shoreline.
  • Corpus Christi Bay is a scenic semi-tropical bay on the Texas coast
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ISLAND

  • is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
  • Oahu is an island in the mid-Pacific, part of the Hawaiian island chain and home to the state capital, Honolulu.
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DELTA

  • a triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river, typically where it diverges into several outlets.
  • The Mississippi River delta
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CANYON

  • a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.
  • Arizona's Grand Canyon
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GLACIER

  • a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.
  • Ice calving from a glacier in northern Argentina
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GULF

  • a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth.
  • The Gulf of Mexico
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STRAIT

  • a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water.
  • Connecting the port of New York to the port of New Jersey

Cyler Burch