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The vocabulary words covered are: archipelago, atoll, butte, canyon, cape, cave, coast,

continent, cove, desert, dune, hill, island, isthmus, key, mesa, mountain, peninsula, plain,
plateau, prairie, tundra, valley, and volcano.

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LANDFORMS
Crossword
ACROSS
1. An area of very low
rainfall. 1 2 3 4

6. A large elevation of 5
the earth’s surface
rising abruptly from the
6

surrounding land. 7

8. An isolated hill with steep 8


sides (narrower than a mesa).
9. A narrow strip of land
connecting two large land 9

masses. 10
11. The edge of land
alongside a sea. 11

12. A naturally raised area


of land, not as high as a
mountain.
12 13

14. A group or chain of 14 15 16 17

islands clustered together. 18


18. A small sheltered bay.
19. A mountain with a crater 19 20

or a vent. 21

21. A wide, mostly flat area 22


of land that has few trees,
but abundant grass.
22. A low area of land
between hills or mountains.

DOWN 10. A deep valley with very 20. A low-lying island usually
1. A mound or ridge of sand steep sides, often with a formed by a reef.
formed by the wind. river running through it.
2. A vast, flat, treeless 13. An isolated flat-topped
region in which the subsoil is hill with steep sides.
permanently frozen. 15. A large underground
3. A large area of flat land chamber.
with very few trees. 16. A piece of land that is
4. Any of the world’s main completely surrounded by
continuous expanses of land water.
5. A large, flat area of land 17. A ring-shaped reef or
that is higher than the island formed of coral.
surrounding land. 18. A pointed piece of land
7. A piece of land projecting that sticks out into a body of
out into a body of water. water.

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