Africa is filled with many different climates, landforms, vegetation, plant life and regions.
Different Landforms From All Around The World !!
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Different Landforms From All Around The World !!
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Mountains
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What is a Mountains Range?
• A mountain range is a group of connected mountains.
• Mountains is a bigger version of a hill.
• Mountains are a natural resources.
Piedmont
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What is a Piedmont?
• An area at or near the foot of a mountain
• A natural land formation
• A hilly place
Plateau
http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/images/Peel-Plateau-A9-A.-Mills.jpg
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What is a Plateau?
• A broad area of high, mostly flat land.
• “It is a beautiful place”
Basin
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What is a Basin?
• A long inlet that separates offshore island form the mainland.
• A bowl shape in the Earth.
• All of the salt stays in the basin.
Volcano
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What is a Volcano?
• An opening in the earth through with lava and ash pour.
• A dangerous place to be when it explodes.
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Hills
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What is a hill?
• A raised area smaller than a mountain.
• “a beautiful place to lay at night and look at the stars”
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Inlet
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What is a Inlet?
• An area of water extending into the land from larger body of water.
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Sound
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What is a Sound?
• A long inlet that separates islands from the main land.
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Tributary
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What is a Tributary?
• Are streams and river that flow into a larger river.
• It is a waterfall that lands into a stream.
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Fall line
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What is a Fall Line?
• An imaginary line, mark by waterfalls and rapids where rivers where descent abruptly from an upland to a low land.
• A waterfall with a imaginary line.
Valley
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http://glaciers.research.pdx.edu/images/california/yose%20valley.jpg
What is a Valley?
• An elongated depression between uplands , hills, or mountains esp. one following the course of a stream.
Reef
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What is a Reef?
• A ridge of rocks and sand, often of coral debris, at or near the surface of the water.
• It is a place where under water animals live.
Ocean
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What is a Ocean?
• A vast body of salt water that covers almost 3 fourths of the earth’s surface.
• where some of the dangerous animals live!
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Cliffs
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What is a Cliff?
• A highs steep face of a rock.
• “A nice place to look over.”
Marshes
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What is a Marsh?
• A tract of the wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally, characterized, by a growth f grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes.
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Rocky Coast
http://www.halifax.ca/environment/images/rocky-coast_000.jpg
What is a Rocky Coast?
• A rocky coast is a bunch of rocks gathered together different shape, sizes and color.
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Riverr
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What is a River?
• A natural stream of water.
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