Landforms - 4 major: mountains, plateaus, hills and plains

Mountains and Hills
Mountains - steep slopes - small summits (cold and snowy)

hills smaller than mtns. - rounded tops

Plains and Plateaus
plains - areas of lg. flat land
plateaus - raised plains - steep cliffs on one or more sides

Oceans and Seas
2 main bodies of water

oceans largest body of water - move in currents and tides

seas - smaller than oceans, mostly landlocked


Lakes and Rivers

bodies of fresh water

Rivers - bodies of fresh MOVING water



**Chesapeake Bay - an estuary

estuary - a semi-enclosed body of water with a measurable degree of salinity

Climates of North America

TROPICAL MOIST:
1.Tropical Rainforest

2.Savanna

3.Tropical Monsoon

DRY:
1.Desert

2.Steppe


MOIST, MILD WINTER
1.Humid Subtropical

2.Mid-Latitude Marine

3.Subtropical Monsoon

4. Mediterranean

MOIST, SEVERE WINTER
1.Humid Continental with Hot Summers

2.Humid Continental with Warm Summers

3.Subarctic

POLAR
1.Tundra

2.Icecap