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11 Cards in this Set
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bay
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a body of water partly enclosed by land with a wide opening to the sea
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peninsula
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a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
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archipelago
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a sea containing a large group of islands
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tributary
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a stream or river flowing into a larger stream or river
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cape
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a point or head of land sticking outinto a sea or other body or water
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river mouth
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the place were the river empties into an ocean, lake or other body of water
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gulf
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a large area of a sea or an ocean that is partially enclosed by land and is bigger than a bay
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strait
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a narrow stream of water that connects two larger boddies of water
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plateau
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A high flate pice of land theat rises steeply above the surruning land
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sound
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a long, wide body of water, larger than a strait, connecting larger bodies of water
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delta
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a triangular deposit of sedisment at the mouth of a river
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