Place Presentation Flash cards

Place

Place

What a location looks like; this includes a location’s human features and its physical features.

Human Features:

Human Features are those things that were built or created by humans. For example, these are some

of Summit's Human Features.

Physical Features:

Physical Features are those things that humans did NOT build or create. They are natural.

Water forms:

Water forms are things made of water.

Landforms:

Landforms are things made of land (dirt, trees, rocks, etc).

Mountains:

Land with steep sides that rises at least 1,000 feet above surrounding land

Plateau:

An area of flat land at high elevation

Valley:

The low-lying area between mountains or hills

Plain:

An area of level land, usually at a low elevation and often covered with grasses

Delta:

Land formed from soil deposited at the mouth of a river

Basin:

A low area of land surrounded by higher land; it is usually drained by a river and its branches

Peninsula:

A piece of land that is mostly surrounded with water (usually on three sides)

Desert:

Dry land with few plants and little rainfall

Ocean:

A major body of salt water

Sea:

A large body of salt water completely or partly surrounded by land

River:

A large stream of water that runs through the land

Mouth:

Place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water