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    The document is an identify landforms quiz that tests the user's ability to correctly name 23 different landforms from images and clues. It also provides definitions for 8 additional landforms. The quiz covers a wide variety of landforms including mountains, volcanoes, lakes, basins, waterfalls, buttes, plateaus, canyons, tributaries, rivers, plains, harbors, beaches, straits, capes, gulfs, islands, peninsulas, deltas, sounds, and archipelagos.

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    The document is an identify landforms quiz that tests the user's ability to correctly name 23 different landforms from images and clues. It also provides definitions for 8 additional landforms. The quiz covers a wide variety of landforms including mountains, volcanoes, lakes, basins, waterfalls, buttes, plateaus, canyons, tributaries, rivers, plains, harbors, beaches, straits, capes, gulfs, islands, peninsulas, deltas, sounds, and archipelagos.

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    The document is an identify landforms quiz that tests the user's ability to correctly name 23 different landforms from images and clues. It also provides definitions for 8 additional landforms. The quiz covers a wide variety of landforms including mountains, volcanoes, lakes, basins, waterfalls, buttes, plateaus, canyons, tributaries, rivers, plains, harbors, beaches, straits, capes, gulfs, islands, peninsulas, deltas, sounds, and archipelagos.

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    IdentifyLandformsQuiz!

    Nameeachlandformbylookingcloselyattheimageabove.
    1

    Mountain

    Volcanoe

    Lake

    Basin

    Waterfall

    Clue:
    Arockformationwithverticalornearlyverticalsidesthatisflat
    ontopandtallerthanitiswideButte

    Plateau

    Canyon

    Tributary

    10

    River

    11

    Plain

    12

    Harbour

    13

    Beach

    14

    Clue:anarrowwaterwayconnectingtwolargerbodiesofwater.
    Strait

    15

    Cape

    16

    Clue:
    partofaseaoroceanthatreachesintolandusuallylarger
    thanabay.Gulf

    17

    Island

    18

    Peninsula

    19

    Island

    20

    Clue:
    landbuiltupbydepositsofsandandsiltatthemouthofsome
    rivers.Delta

    21

    Clue:
    awidechannelconnectingtwobodiesofwateroraninlet
    betweenthemainlandandislands.Sound

    22

    Clue:
    largestbodyofsaltwaterthesecover3/4oftheearths
    surface.
    Rivermouth

    23

    Archipelago

    Writeadefinitionforeachofthefollowinglandforms:

    Alluvialfan

    Abnalluvialfanisafanoraconeshapeddepositofsedimentscrossedandbuiltupbystreams

    Divide

    Sepertaeortobeseperatedintotwoparts

    Mesa

    Anisolatedflattoppedhillwithsteepsides

    Moraine

    Amassofrocksandsedimentcarrieddownanddepositedbyaglacier

    Sandbar

    Along,narrowsandback,especiallyatthemouthoftheriver

    Rivermouth

    Arivermouthisthepartofariverthatflowsintoalake

    FloodPlain

    Anareaoflowlyinggroundadjacenttoariver

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