A fun, hands-on project you can use with your students in your geographic features (landforms, bodies of water) unit. This dictionary contains 50 different physical features and asks students to identify their definitions and to create a drawing for each feature. A great project to assign as a partner project or group work in the library or computer lab.

Features included are: Archipelago, Atoll, Basin, Bay, Beach, Butte, Canyon, Cape, Cave, Channel, Cliff, Coast, Cove, Delta, Desert, Dune, Estuary, Fjord, Forest, Geyser,
Glacier, Gulf, Hill, Iceberg, Island, Isthmus, Jungle, Lagoon, Lake, Marsh, Mesa, Mountain, Oasis, Ocean, Peninsula, Plain, Plateau, Pond, Prairie, Rain forest, River, Sea, Sound, Strait, Swamp, Tributary, Tundra, Valley, Volcano, Waterfall.

This download is also available with a beautiful 50+ slide PowerPoint Presentation with color photographs for the geographic features. "Geographic Features Project and PowerPoint Presentation."

Meghan Mathis

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