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Landforms
10 types of landforms with real world examples...
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Waterfall- rivers that fall steeply
Ban Gioc Waterfall- is located in between china and Vientnam. Its has a height of 197' it has had 3 drops longest drop of 98'.
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Mountain- a landform that extends above the surroundings
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.
The San Jouquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S.
Margerie Glacier is a 21-mile-long tide water glacier in Glacier Bay in Alaska
Undentified real world example..........
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States.
Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located off the coast of the U.S. state of California.
The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions.
River delta. A river delta is a landform that forms at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir
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Valley- a low lace between mountains.
Glacier- a slowly oving river of ice
Ocean- a large body of water that surrounds a continent.
Gulf- part of ocean or sea partily surrounded by land.
Delta- where the mouth of a river flows into the ocean.
Lake- large body of water surounded by land on all sides.
Bay- area of water bordered by land on three sides.
Peninsula- piece of land borded by three side of water.
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