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What is a large body of water that is completely surrounded by land?
Lake
What is a body of water partly closed in by land?
Bay
What is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly down a slope or spreads outward over a land surface?
glacier
What is an area of mostly flat, treeless land?
plains
What is a hill or mountain with steep sides and a flat top?
Mesa
What is land surrounded by water on three sides?
Peninsula
What is a large area of an ocean or sea partly closed in by land? (Hint: It is usually bigger than a bay)
Gulf
What are low areas that separate mountains and hills?
Valleys
What is a cone-shaped opening on the earth's surface that spews ash, lava, and gas?
Volcano
What is a body of water that connects two bigger bodies of water?
Channel
What is the largest of all landforms?
Continent
What is the largest bodies of salt water?
Oceans
What is a narrow flow of water that connects two bigger bodies of water?
Strait
What is a body of land completely surrounded by water?
Island
What is a large group of islands clustered together?
Archipelago
What is a landform that rises high above other land areas?
Mountain
