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Key Geographic

Features

USI 2d

Mountain

• Highest land on earth

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Hill

Rounded land higher than the land around it

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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.england-seiten.de/Fotos/Wiltshire/large/Avebury%2520Silbury%2520Hill.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.england-seiten.de/Fotos/Wiltshire/&h=1192&w=2121&sz=298&tbnid=g7BQ_ogtjroJ:&tbnh=84&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=19&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhill%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

Valley

► Low land between mountains and hills

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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://office.geog.uvic.ca/dept/whale/Webphotos/Moyeha%2520Valley.jpg&imgrefurl=http://office.geog.uvic.ca/dept/whale/Webphotos/Photopage.html&h=272&w=410&sz=29&tbnid=keBGSYblo20J:&tbnh=80&tbnw=121&hl=en&start=13&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvalley%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

Plain

Very large area of

flat land

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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://chapters.marssociety.org/canada/expedition-mars.org/ExpeditionTwo/files/photos/Lake-Frome-Plain.jpg&imgrefurl=http://chapters.marssociety.org/canada/expedition-mars.org/ExpeditionTwo/files/photos/&h=480&w=640&sz=54&tbnid=s6s1_XY3QeEJ:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&hl=en&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dplain%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

Range

• A row of mountains

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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.shabru.com/Blue%2520Ridge%2520Mt.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.shabru.com/photosbyorr.html&h=400&w=600&sz=287&tbnid=Q5hWRQWqxj4J:&tbnh=88&tbnw=133&hl=en&start=21&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dridge%26start%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Peninsula

• Land with water on three sides

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http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arrakeen.ch/thai4/336%2520%2520peninsula%2520in%2520the%2520south%2520of%2520Turkey.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.arrakeen.ch/thai4/thailandjul04.html&h=959&w=1279&sz=64&tbnid=cmOvLj1FwoUJ:&tbnh=112&tbnw=150&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpeninsula%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Plateau

Elevated piece of land that is flat on top

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Island

• Body of land surrounded by water on all sides.

Water Features

Lakes

Body of water

completely

surrounded by land.

Rivers

A very large stream of

water leading to a lake,

other river, or ocean

Tributary

A stream or river that

runs into a larger river

Bay

Narrower part of an

ocean or lake that cuts

into land

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Gulf

• Body of water, larger than a bay, with land around part of it

Geographic Features help shape

Patterns of Trade

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Locations of cities and towns

Western Frontier movement

Agriculture and fishing industries

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