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6 th Grade Go Greiner

Discover various landforms like mountains, hills, deserts, islands, rivers, lakes, oceans, plains, valleys, forests, plateaus, mesas, peninsulas, and more with Greiner 6th-grade geography terms.

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6 th Grade Go Greiner

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  1. Geogaphy Terms 6th Grade Go Greiner

  2. Mountain • A mountain is the highest kind of land. • A mountain has a peak. This is the famous Matterhorn between Switzerland and Italy. You want to climb?

  3. Mount Everest • What can you tell me about Mount Everest? • Over 29,000 feet tall (almost 6 miles straight up)

  4. Hill • A hill is land that rises above the land around it. • A hill has a rounded top.

  5. Texas Hill Country

  6. Island • An island is land that has water on all sides. Lets go to Hawaii!!

  7. Desert • A desert is dry land with few plants. • A desert does not get much rain. Looks like the Sahara. Where is that??

  8. River • A river is • a long body • of water that • flows through • the land. Mississippi River in St. Louis

  9. Mississippi River • A different view • Why does the river wind like that?

  10. Lake • A lake is a body of water that has land on all sides. Lake Titicaca: the highest navigable lake in the world (located in Bolivia) Do you know what navigable means? Hmmmm ….navigate

  11. Satellite view: Where is Chicago?

  12. Ocean • An Ocean is a very large • body of salty water that covers a large area.

  13. Plain • A plain is flat land.

  14. Valley • A valley is low land between hills or mountains. Glacier National Park in Montana

  15. Forest • A forest is a large area of land where many trees grow. Redwood forest in California

  16. Central America is an isthmus (isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas )

  17. Tributary - a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major

  18. Plateau - An elevated, comparatively level expanse of land; a tableland • This is the Tibetan plateau.

  19. Mesa - A broad, flat-topped elevation with one or more clifflike sides

  20. Peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. Do you see Cancun?

  21. Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Let’s go to Spain Greiner students!!

  22. Canyon - A narrow chasm with steep cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge.

  23. A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth.

  24. Oceans - Any of the principal divisions of the ocean, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic (Southern) oceans.

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