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- River
- large stream of fresh water flowing over land
- Source
- The beginning of a river
- Tributary
- a river or creek that flows into a large river
- Mouth
- place where a river flows into an ocean or another river
- Delta
- land deposited at mouth of a river
- Basin
- land drained by a river and its branches
- Downstream
- direction in which the water in a river flows
- Upstream
- direction from which the river water flows
- Current
- movement of a stream of water
- Rapids
- very swift current
- Waterfall
- water flows over a cliff
- Bay
- water (smaller than the sea) that reaches into land
- Gulf
- part of an ocean or sea that reaches into land
- Harbor
- a sheltered place where ships go to dock
- channel
- similar to, but wider than, a strait
- sound
- water wider than a channel that usually separates an island from the mainland
- lake
- large body of water surrounded by land
- isthmus
- a small strip of land that is surrounded by water that connects two larger strips of land
- taiga
- evergreen, conifer forest located south of the tundra that contains mostly fir trees and spruces
- tundra
- very cold area that only gets above freezing a few months of the year; has some small plants but no trees growing
- globe
- small, spherical object used to represent the planet; contains geographical features
- globe
- small, spherical object used to represent the planet; contains geographical features
