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What are muddy, flat lowlands called?

Marsh

What is a body of water that connects two bigger bodies of water?

Channel

What are low areas that separate mountains and hills?

Valleys

What is a large stream of water that empties into another body of water?

River

What is a large body of water that is completely surrounded by land?

Lake

What is a raised, rounded landform that is lower than a mountain?

Hill

What is the largest bodies of salt water?

Oceans

What is land surrounded by water on three sides?

Peninsula

What is a body of land completely surrounded by water?

Island

What is a large body of salt water that is smaller than an ocean?

Sea

What is a pointed piece of land that stretches out into the water? (Hint: It is smaller than a peninsula)

Cape

What is a large group of islands clustered together?

Archipelago

What is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly down a slope or spreads outward over a land surface?

glacier

What is a narrow flow of water that connects two bigger bodies of water?

Strait

What is a narrow piece of land that joins two larger pieces?

Isthmus

What is a steep fall or flow of water from a high place?

Waterfall

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 a large area of an ocean or sea partly closed in by land? (Hint: It is usually bigger than a bay)

Gulf

What is a body of water partly closed in by land?

Bay

What is a landform that rises high above other land areas?

Mountain

What is a cone-shaped opening on the earth's surface that spews ash, lava, and gas?

Volcano

What is the largest of all landforms?

Continent

What is a river or stream that joins a larger one?

Tributary