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What is an area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevation?
Landforms and Geographic Dictionary
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| basin | area of land drained by a given river, area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevation |
| bay | part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf |
| continent | one of the seven large landmasses on the earth |
What landform has high areas and low areas?
Plateaus
Plateaus are areas with low relief and high elevation. Plateaus are much higher than the surrounding land and often have steep, rugged sides.
What is land usually level at a low elevation?
General geography terms
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| Plain | Area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses |
| Plateau | Area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300 to 3,000 feet (90 to 900 m) high |
What land mass has a higher elevation than the area around it but is smaller than a mountain?
UNIT ONE – GEOGRAPHIC TERMS
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| HARBOR | A SHELTERED PLACE ALONG A SHORELINE WHERE SHIPS CAN ANCHOR SAFELY |
| HIGHLAND | ELEVATED LAND AREA SUCH AS A HILL, MOUNTAIN, OR PLATEAU |
| HILL | ELEVATED LAND WITH SLOPING SIDES, SMALLER THAN A MOUNTAIN |
| ISLAND | LAND AREA, SMALLER THAN A CONTINENT, COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY WATER |
What are three examples of landforms?
Mountains, plains, and buttes (like these) are all landforms. A landform is a feature on the Earth’s surface that is part of the terrain. Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins.
What must be present for erosion to occur?
For erosion to occur, a transportig agent, such as water, wind, ice or gravity, must be present. Weathering is the physical and chemical processes that change the earth’s surface and erosion and erosion occurs when weathered materials are moved by transporting agent.
What is the meaning of low land?
: an area where the land is at, near, or below the level of the sea and where there are not usually mountains or large hills.
What are the low spaces between mountains called?
A gap is a low area between two higher-elevation landmasses, such as mountains. Gaps are similar to passes, but more rugged and difficult to navigate. The most rugged gaps are often called “notches.” Notches are rarely crossed, and usually marked by steep cliffs on either side.
What is the most common landform?
Oceans are the most common type of landform in the world. The five oceans – the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Artic – account for more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this landform contains 97 percent of the Earth’s water.
What are the common landforms that you know?
There are four major types of landforms on Earth: mountains, hills, plateaus and plains.
Can you have erosion without deposition?
Thus without erosion deposition is not possible, in order to get deposited the physical erosion had to take an example of landslides that are from mass wasting the process of erosion causes the rocks to deforms from the hillsides and they crumble downhill to form a slope.
What is difference between erosion and deposition?
Erosion and deposition are related opposites; erosion removes sediment from a land form while deposition adds sediment to a land form.