PICTURE WORD ARCHIPELAGO DELTA DEFINITION EXAMPLE a group or chain of islands Philippines Islands flat, low lying land built from deposits of soil carried downstream and deposited at the mouth of a river Mississippi River Delta BASIN area drained by a river or land surrounded by higher elevations Congo River Basin DEPRESSION an area that is sunk below the surrounding area Qattara Depression ESCARPMENT steep cliff or slope between higher and lower land surfaces Caprock Escarpment HIGHLAND ISTHMUS elevated land - hills, mountains, plateaus Brazilian Highlands a narrow stretch of land Isthmus of connecting two larger Panama land areas CANAL PENINSULA man-made waterway for travel body of land surrounded by water on three sides Suez Canal Florida PLAIN area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses (see lowland) Llanos PLATEAU area of flat rolling land of high elevation (3003,000 feet) Mato Grosso Plateau TAIGA TUNDRA Huge forests of evergreen trees that grow in subarctic regions vast, treeless plain in high latitude climates in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in the summer Russian Forest near Lake Baikal Antarctica has lots of tundra
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