1. Bell work 9/6 Put your name at the top of your paper.
Fold your paper in half.
On the back draw a line down the center where you folded.
On the left side draw a circle map with “physical geography” in the center circle.
On the right side number 1-2 with space to write sentences for each one.
With your table group at a level 1 define ‘physical geography’ in your circle map.
When you are finished turn in your Cornell Notes from last week if you forgot to turn them in.

2. On your graphic organizer
Physical Feature
Definition
Possible Uses/Resources
Image
Mountain
Plain
River
Lake
Rainforest
Highland
Ocean
Sea
Plateau
Strait
Ice Shelf
Peninsula
Desert
Valley
Tundra
Gulf

3. Identify and list the possible uses and/or resources found there
Physical Features
For each term:
Define the term
Identify and list the possible uses and/or resources found there
Create an image for each

4. What are physical features?
Landforms, bodies of water, climate, natural vegetation and soil of the earth

5. Mountain
Land with steep sides that rises sharply (1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land; generally larger and more rugged than a hill

6. Plain
Area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses

7. River
Large natural stream of water that runs through the land

8. Lake
A sizeable inland body of water

9. Rainforest
A tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall

10. highland
Elevated land area such as a hill, mountain, or plateau

11. Ocean
One of the five major bodies of salt water that surround the continents

12. Sea
Large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land

13. plateau
Area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300-3,000 feet high

14. strait
Narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water

15. Ice shelf
A thick mass of ice that is permanently attached to the land but projects into and floats on the sea

16. peninsula
Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water

17. desert
A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all

18. valley
Area of low land between hills or mountains

19. tundra
One of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions

20. Gulf
Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally larger and more deeply indented than a bay