| A | B |
|---|
| canyon | deep, narrow valley cut by river erosion |
| globe | model of the earth |
| island | body of land with water all around it |
| swamp | wet spongy land |
| lake | a body of water with land all around it |
| erode | to wear away |
| environment | everything around you |
| continent | one of the seven largest bodies of land |
| sea level | surface of the ocean |
| hemisphere | any half of the earth |
| climate | kind of weather a place usually has |
| resources | things in the environment that people use |
| mesa | high flat land with steep sides |
| mountain | high, steep land |
| valley | low land between mountains |
| plain | flat land |
| equator | imaginary line around the center of the earth |
| desert | area that receives less than 10 inches of rain per year and has a high rate of evaporation |
| compass rose | drawing on a map showing direction |
| key or legend | explains what the symbols on a map stand for |
