Unit 2

Earth, Our Home

Key Words

capital: a city where leaders of a state work.

river: a long body of water that flows across the land.

lake: a body of water with land all around it.

plain: an area of flat land.

mountain: the highest kind of land.

hill: land that is higher than the land around it but lower than a mountain.

valley: low land between hills or mountains.

peninsula: land that has wter on three sides.

island: land that has water all around it.

natural resource: something in nature that people use.

continent: largest body of land on Earth.

ocean: largest body of water on Earth.

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