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Indicator 1
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DEFINITIONS AND
CONCEPTS

Objective:
To identify the main concepts of world geography in order to understand
how the land is organized.
Learning objective(s:
Recognize landforms, body of water, climates and vegetation of the
different parts of the world in order to classify each one.
Amos 4:13
He who forms the mountains,
who creates the wind,
and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,
who turns dawn to darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth
the Lord God Almighty is his name.

LANDFORMS
Alandformis a natural feature of the Earth's
surface. Landforms together make up a
giventerrain, and their arrangement on the
landscape or the study of same is known as
topography. Typical landforms includehills,
mountains,plateaus,canyons,valleys,
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well as shorelinefeatures such asbays,
peninsulas, andseas, including submerged
features such asmid-ocean ridges,volcanoes
, and the great ocean basins.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes
such as elevation, slope, orientation,stratification, rock
exposure, and soil type.
Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements
such asberms,mounds,hills,ridges,cliffs,valleys,rivers,
peninsulasand numerous other structural and size-scaled
(i.e.pondsvs.lakes,hillsvs.mountains) elements including
various kinds of inland and oceanicwaterbodiesand subsurface features.

VOLCANOES
A mountainwith a large, circularholeat the top
through which lava

MOUNTAINS
a

raisedpartof the earth's surface, much

largerthan a hill, the topof which
might be coveredin snow

VALLEYS
an areaof lowlandbetween hillsor
mountains

ISLAND
a pieceof landcompletely surroundedby water

LAKE
A largeareaof watersurroundedby
land.

PENINSULA
a longpieceof landthat sticksout from a larger
areaof land into the seaor into a lake

CANYON
a large valley with very steep sides and
usually a river flowing along the bottom

GLACIER
a large mass of ice that moves slowly

WORKSHOP