Geographic Features
Geographic Feature
Lakes
Rivers
Tributaries
Gulfs
Bays
Oceans
Water related
What does it look
How does it appear
like?
on the map?
How would you describe
it?
Geographic Features
Geographic Feature
What does it look
like?
How does it appear
on the map?
How would you describe
it?
Mountains
Hills
Plains
Plateaus
Islands
Peninsulas
Geographic features are related to:
 Patterns of trade
 Locations of Cities and towns
 Westward (frontier) movement
 Agriculture and fishing industries.
Key geographic features are important to recognize when they appear on maps, diagrams, and photographs.
Land and water features set the stage for and influence the course of events in US history.
Geographic Features
Geographic Features
-
an arm of a sea
or ocean partly
enclosed by
land and larger
than a bay
- a high flatland
- a LARGE body of
salt water that covers
most of the Earth's
surface
- an area of water
mostly surrounded
by land
- a body of land that is
- a body of water
surrounded by land smaller than a
continent and
(usually freshwater)
completely surrounded
by water
- a large, high elevation - a stream or river
which flows into main
of land with steep
sides that is larger than stem (or parent) river
a hill
- a natural elevation of - a broad, flat area of
land that is lower than land having few or no
a mountain and often
trees
rounded
- a piece of land that is
mostly surrounded by
water, but still
connected to a
mainland
- a natural
watercourse,
usually freshwater,
flowing toward
another water source