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Earth’s Landforms
Second Grade Social Studies
Vocabulary
• island• valley• river• lake• hill
• peninsula• mountain• plateau• ocean• plain• canyon
valley
• Low land between hills or mountains.
mountain
• The highest kind of land.
ocean
• A very large body of salt water.
lake
• A body of water with land all around it.
hill
• Land that is higher than land around it, but lower than a mountain.
river
• A long body of water that flows across the land.
island
• A body of land with water all around it.
peninsula
• Land that has water on three sides.
plateau
• An area of flat land, higher than the surrounding country.
plain
•An area of flat land.
canyon
• Long, narrow valley with steep sides.
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