TERMS TO KNOW

 Plain- a large area  Fault Line- a

of flat, or nearly crack in Earth’s
flat, land surface caused
 Barrier Island- by moving plates
narrow island  Aquifer- a layer
between the of rock or gravel
mainland and
ocean
that absorbs
 Escarpment- a rainfall and
steep slope or cliff keeps if flowing
 Plateau- an area of underground
high, flat land  Midlatitudes- a
 Norther- blast of wide band of
cold air from latitudes on
Canada that either side of the
sweeps across Equator, midway
Texas and the Gulf between the
of Mexico in the Equator and the
autumn and winter North and South
Poles