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| Map scale | The part of a map that compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world. |
| Map key | The part of a map that explains what the symbols on the map stand for. |
| latitude | The set of imaginary lines on a globe or map that run east and west. They are used to tell how far north or south of the equator a place is. |
| longitude | The set of imaginary lines on a globe or map that run north and south. They are used to tell how far east or west of the prim meridian a place is. |
| Continental Divide | An imaginary line running north and south along the higest points of the Rocky Mountains. |
| elevation | The height of the land |
| basin | Bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher land |
| bay | body of water that is part of a sea or ocean and is partly enclosed by land |
| coastal plain | area of flat land along a sea or ocean |
| desert | dry land with few plants |
| oasis | area of water and fertile land in a desert |
| ocean | body of salt water larger than a sea |
| mouth of river | place where a river empties inot another body of water |
| peak | top of a mountain |
| mesa | flat-topped mountain with steep sides |
| plain | flat land |
| mountain pass | low place between mountains |
| sea level | the level that is even with the surface of an ocean or sea |
| volcano | opening in the Earth, often raise, through with lava, rock, ashes, and gases are forced out |
| waterfall | steep dorp from a high place to a lower place in a stream or river |
| mountain | highest kind of land |
| floodplain | flat land that is near the edges of a river and is formed by the silt depostited by floods |
| canyon | deep, narrow valley with steep sides |
| channel | deepest part of a body of water |
| coast | land along a sea or ocean |
| dune | hill of sand piled up by the wind |
| cliff | high, steep face of rock or earth |
| island | land that has water on all sides |
| harbor | area of water where ships can dock safely near land |
| glacier | large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or across land |
| marsh | lowland with moist soil and tall grasses |
| coatal plain | area of flat land along a sea or ocean |
| bluff | high, steep face of rock or earth |
| lake | body of water with land on all sides |
| foothills | hilly area at the base of a mountain |
| delta | triangle-shaped area of land at the mouth of a river |
| fjord | deep, narrow part of a sea or ocean, between hig, steep banks |
| swamp | area of low, wet land with trees |
| timberline | line on a mountain above which it is too cold for trees to grow |
| tributary | stream or river that empties into a larger river |
