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Definition: A large
group of islands.
Sentence: The
Hawaiian Islands
make up an
archipelago.
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Definition: a ringshaped coral island
that surrounds a
lagoon.
Sentence: Bikini Atoll
is located in the
Marshall Islands in
the
Pacific Ocean.
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Definition: a large
body of water
connected to an ocean
or sea.
Sentence: The Bay of
Bengal is the largest
bay in the world.
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Definition: an isolated
hill with steep, often
vertical sides and a
small, relatively flat
top.
Sentence: The Devils
Tower is a butte
located in
northeastern
Wyoming.
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Definition: an artificial
waterway constructed
to allow the passage
of boats or ships
inland or to convey
water for irrigation.
Sentence: The Panama
Canal was completed
in 1914.
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Definition: a headland
or a promontory of
large size extending
into a body of water,
usually the sea.
Cape Canaveral was
chosen for rocket
launches to take
advantage of the
Earth's rotation
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Definition: a body of
water that connects
two larger bodies of
water.
Sentence: The English
Channel connects the
North Sea and the
Atlantic Ocean.
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Definition: a landform
at the mouth of a river
created by sediment
deposits.
Sentence: The Nile
Delta in Northern
Egypt is where the
Nile River drains in to
the Mediterranean
Sea.
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Definition: a narrow
inlet of the sea set
between high, rocky
cliffs.
Sentence: Norway’s
Sogne Fjord is over
100 miles long.
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Definition: a spring
that shoots hot water
and steam into the air.
Sentence: Old Faithful
is a geyser located in
Yellowstone National
Park.
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Definition: a large bay
that is an arm of an
ocean or sea.
Sentence: The U.S.
states of Texas,
Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama,
and Florida border the
Gulf of Mexico on the
north.
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Definition: a narrow
strip of land that
connects two larger
land masses.
Sentence: The Isthmus
of Panama connects
North America and
South America.
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Definition: land
covered with dense
vegetation dominated
by trees.
Sentence: The
Amazon is the largest
jungle in the world.
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Definition: a large
inland body of fresh
water or salt water.
Sentence: Lake Martin
is located in
Tallapoosa, Elmore
and Coosa counties in
Alabama
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Definition: a low
poorly drained land
that is sometimes
flooded and often lies
at the edge of lakes,
streams, etc.
Sentence: The coastal
marshes in southwest
Alabama provide
valuable habitat to a
wide array of wildlife.
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Definition: A broad,
flat-topped elevation
with one or more clifflike sides, common in
the southwest United
States.
Sentence: Tucumcari
Mountain is a mesa
outside of Tucumcari,
New Mexico.
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Definition: a piece of
land surrounded on
three sides by water.
Sentence: The state of
Florida is a peninsula.
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Definition: a large
area of level or nearly
level land.
Sentence: Many
plains, such as the
Great Plains that
stretch across much of
central North
America, are
grasslands.
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Definition: a land area
having a relatively
level surface
considerably raised
above adjoining land
on at least one side,
and often cut by deep
canyons.
Sentence: The largest
and highest plateau in
the world is the
Tibetan Plateau.
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Definition: an
extensive flat or
rolling area
dominated by grasses.
Sentence: The Central
Valley of California is
a prairie.
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Definition: a region of
water within an ocean
and partly enclosed
by land.
Sentence: The Bering
Sea is a part of the
Pacific Ocean.
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Definition: a sound is a
wide inlet of the sea or
ocean that is parallel to
the coastline; it often
separates a coastline
from a nearby island.
Sentence: Puget Sound
is a sound along the
northwestern coast of
the U.S. state of
Washington.
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Definition: a treeless
area beyond the
timberline in highlatitude regions.
Sentence: Arctic
tundra occurs in the
far Northern
Hemisphere, north of
the taiga belt.
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Definition: a low place
between mountains.
Sentence: Yosemite
Valley was carved out
by glaciers.
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