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Physical Features
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Basin Tidal Basin in D.C. A partially enclosed, sheltered area along a shore, often partly man-made or dredged to a greater depth, where boats may be moored: a yacht basin.
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Bay: Trunk Bay, Virgin Islands A body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
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Butte: Utah (mesas in background) An isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.
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Canal : Corinth Canal, Greece An artificial waterway for navigation, irrigation, etc.
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Canyon: Grand Canyon, A deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it.
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Cape: Cape Canaveral (from Space) A piece of land jutting into the sea or some other large body of water.
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Delta A nearly flat plain of alluvial deposit between diverging branches of the mouth of a river, often, though not necessarily, triangular: the Nile delta.
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Desert: Sahara A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all
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Gulf: Gulf of Mexico A portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
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Island: Maldive Islands (Indian Ocean) A tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
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Isthmus: Isthmus of Panama A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
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Key/cay: Florida keys A reef or low island; cay.
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Lake: Lacamas Lake A body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
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Mesa: Northern Utah A land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
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Mountain peak: Mt. Hood The pointed top (summit) of a mountain or ridge.
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Mountain Range: Cascade Mountains A row of connected mountains.
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Ocean: Pacific A vast body of salt water that covers almost3/4 of Earth’s surface.
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Peninsula: Baja A portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body of land.
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Plain: Po Plains, Italy A large area of level land (tundra, prairie, savannahs, etc.).
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Plateau: Colorado An elevated, level or nearly level portion of Earth’s surface, larger in summit area than a mountain and has at least one steep slope.
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River: Columbia River A natural stream of water of a fairly large size.
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River Mouth: A part of the river where its waters empty into a larger body of water.
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River Source: The place the river begins; usually in highlands.
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Sound: A recessed portion of the sea/narrow passage of water b/w larger bodies (i.e. mainland and island).
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Strait: Bering Strait A narrow channel that connects two larger bodies of water
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Tributary: A stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.
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Valley: An area of generally flat land extending many miles inland and drained or watered by a large river and its tributaries. OR an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, esp. one following the course of a stream.
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Volcano: Costa Rica A mountain or hill, usually having a cup-like crater at the summit, formed around a vent from ash and lava expelled through it.
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