| A | B |
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| bay | part of a body of water that goes into the land |
| coast | the land along a sea or ocean |
| harbor | a protected place on an ocean,sea, or river where ships can safely stay |
| hill | a rounded and raised landform; not as high as a mountain |
| island | a body of land entirely surrounded by water |
| lake | a body of water entirely surrounded by land |
| mesa | a high, flat landform |
| mountain | a high rounded or pointed landform with steep sides-higher than a hill |
| ocean | largest bodies of water on earth- whole body of salt water that covers nearly 3/4 of the earth's surface |
| peninsula | land that is nearly surrounded by water |
| plain | an area of flat or almost flat grassy land |
| river | a large stream of water that flows across the land and usually empties into a lake, an ocean, or another river |
| valley | an area of low land between hills or mountains |
| pond | a body of water completely surrounded by land-smaller than a lake |
| landform | the shape of the surface of the land |
| geography | the study of landforms, water, natural resources, climate and people of a place |
| natural resource | something found in nature that people use |
| climate | the kind of weather a place has over a long time |
| it gets cooler | how climate changes as you travel north |
| it can change from day to day | how weather is different from climate |
| fish | natural resource provided by oceans |
| four | number of oceans that cover the earth |
| hot and sunny | phrase that describes Florida's climate |
| reason many communities were built along rivers | They provided for faster traveling. |
| reason most people decide to live in a particular place | its geography |
| the distance between two places | what a map scale helps you find |
| hemisphere | half a sphere |
| Northern and Western hemispheres | hemispheres in which we live |
| Arctic Ocean | ocean at the North Pole |
| intermediate directions | northwest, northeast,southwest, southeast |
| equator | imaginary line around the center of the earth that divides it into the northern and southern hemispheres |
| prime meridian | imaginary line that divides the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres |
| four parts of geography | landforms, bodies of water, climate, and natural resourcess |
| sphere | shaped like a ball |
