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| x Abyssal fan | Code category |
Abyssal Fans, also known as deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater structures that look like deltas formed at the end of many large rivers, such as the Nile or Mississippi Rivers. Abyssal fans are also thought of as an...
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| x Abyssal plain |
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Abyssal plains are flat or very gently sloping areas of the deep ocean basin floor. They are among the Earth's flattest and smoothest regions and the least explored. Abyssal plains cover approximately 40% of the ocean floor and reach depths between...
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| x Agriculture | Bird Conservation Region 26 | Agricultural crops | Broadcast Genre |
Agriculture is the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of human civilization, with the husbandry of domesticated animals and plants (i.e. crops) creating food surpluses...
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| x Archipelago |
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An archipelago (pronounced /ɑrkɨˈpɛləɡoʊ/) is a chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically. The word archipelago is directly derived from the Greek arkhon (arkhi-) ("main" - and so "leader" in "monarchy" for example) and pelagos ("sea"...
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| x Arroyo |
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An arroyo (literally brook in Spanish), also called a wash or draw, is a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally. As such, the term is similar to the word wadi. Arroyos can be natural or man...
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| x Aspen forest | West central Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Code category | ||||
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| x Atoll |
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An atoll (pronounced /ˈætɒl/ or English pronunciation: /æˈtɒl/) is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
The word atoll comes from the Dhivehi (an Indo-Aryan language spoken on the Maldive Islands) word atholhu (Dhivehi...
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Beach/dune | Tourist attraction |
A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones. The particles of which the beach is composed...
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Bogs and associated wetlands | Code category |
A bog or mire is a wetland type that accumulates acidic peat, a deposit of dead plant material—usually mosses, but also lichens in Arctic climates.
Bogs occur where the water at the ground surface is acidic, either from acidic ground water, or where...
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| Appalachian Swamp Forest; also Forested Bog, Seepage Swamp | Habitat | |||||
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| x Boreal conifer | Jack Pine | Code category | ||||
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| x Boreal hardwoods | Aspen | Code category | ||||
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| x Bottomland forest | Bird Conservation Region 26 | Cottonwood | Code category | |||
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| x Bottomland hardwood forest concept | Sandhills river bottom | Code category | ||||
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| x Butte |
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A butte (pronounced /ˈbjuːt/) is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; smaller than mesas, plateaus, and tables. In some regions the word is simply used for any hill. The word "butte" comes from a French...
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| x Caldera |
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A caldera is a cauldron-like volcanic feature usually formed by the collapse of land following a volcanic eruption such as the ones at Yellowstone National Park in the US and Glen Coe in Scotland. They are sometimes confused with volcanic craters....
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| x Canyon |
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A canyon, or gorge, is a deep valley between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Most canyons were formed by a process of long-time erosion from a plateau level. The cliffs form because harder rock strata that are resistant to erosion...
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Caves | Code category |
A cave or cavern is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes...
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| x Cliff |
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In geography and geology, a cliff is a significant vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure. Cliffs are formed as erosion landforms due to the processes of erosion and weathering that produce them. Cliffs are common on coasts, in mountainous areas,...
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| x Coniferous forest | Code category |
A generic description of coniferous forest that may occur anywhere in the world.
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| x Continental shelf |
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The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent and associated coastal plain, and was part of the continent during the glacial periods, but is undersea during interglacial periods such as the current epoch by relatively shallow...
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| x Cove forest | Sosebee Cove | High-Elevation Cove Forests | Code category | |||
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| x Deciduous Forest concept | West central Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Deciduous forest | Code category | Deciduous |
Generic deciduous forest description.
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| x Dell | Code category |
In physical geography, a dell is a small wooded valley. Like "dale", the word "dell" is derived from the Old English language dæl.
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| x Ditch |
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A ditch is usually defined as a small to moderate depression created to channel water.
In Anglo-Saxon, the word dic already existed and was pronounced with a hard c in northern England and as ditch in the south. The origins of the word lie in...
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| x Drumlin |
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan | Code category |
A drumlin (derived from the Gaelic word druim (“rounded hill,” or “mound”) first recorded use in 1833) is an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial action. Its long axis is parallel with the movement of the ice, with the blunter end facing...
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| x Drumlin field |
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A drumlin field is a cluster of dozens to hundreds of similarly shaped, sized and oriented drumlins, also called a drumlin swarm. Drumlins are one type of landform that indicate continental ice sheet glaciation. The total depth of glacial deposits...
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| x Dune |
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In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by aeolian processes. Dunes are subject to different forms and sizes based on their interaction with the wind. Most kinds of dune are longer on the windward side where the sand is pushed up the...
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| x Early successional forest | Early successional | Code category | ||||
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| x Eastern Hemlock forest concept | Acidic mesic forest | Code category |
The generic concept of an Eastern Hemlock dominant forest.
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| x Escarpment |
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Escarpments | Code category |
In geomorphology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves a sharp, steep elevation differential, characterized by a cliff or steep slope. Usually escarpment is used interchangeably with scarp ...
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| x Estuary |
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An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries are thus subject to both marine influences, such as tides, waves, and the influx of saline...
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| x Fell |
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A fell (from Old Norse fjall, "mountain") is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, and parts of England.
The English word fell comes from Old Norse fjall. It is cognate with...
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| x Fen |
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A fen is a type of wetland fed by surface and/or groundwater. Fens are characterized by their water chemistry, which is neutral or alkaline. Fens are different from bogs, which are acidic, fed primarily by rainwater (ombrotrophic) and often...
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| x Fjord |
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Geologically, a fjord (pronounced /fjɔrd/ ( listen) or pronounced /fiːɔrd/) is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.
Fjords are formed when a glacier cuts a v-shaped valley by abrasion of the...
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| x Floodplain |
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A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional or periodic flooding. It includes the floodway, which consists of the stream channel and adjacent areas that carry flood flows, and...
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| x Glacier |
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A glacier is a perennial mass of ice which moves over land. A glacier forms in locations where the mass accumulation of snow and ice exceeds ablation over many years. The word glacier comes from French via the Vulgar Latin glacia, and ultimately...
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| x Grassland |
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Piedmont grassland and early successional habitats | Code category |
Grasslands (also called greenswards) are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae) and other herbaceous (non-woody) plants (forbs). However, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found. Grasslands occur...
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| x Gully |
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A gully is a landform created by running water eroding sharply into soil, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width. When the gully formation is in process, the...
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| x Highland | Code category |
The term highland or upland is used to denote any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau.
The Scottish Highlands refers to the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. Many countries have areas that are...
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| x Hill | Code category |
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. Hills often have a distinct summit, although in areas with scarp/dip topography a hill may refer to a particular section of scarp slope without a well-defined summit...
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| x Inlet |
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An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon or marsh. In sea coasts an inlet usually refers to the actual connection...
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| x Inverted river delta |
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An inverted river delta is special category of river delta in which the narrow end of the delta emerges on the seafront and the wide end is located further inland, so that with respect to the seafront, the locations of both ends of the delta are...
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| x Island |
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An island (pronounced /ˈaɪlənd/) or isle (/ˈaɪl/) is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets. A key or cay is another name for a small island or islet. An island in...
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| x Islet |
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An islet is a small island.
As suggested by its origin as islette, an Old French diminutive of "isle", use of the term implies small size, but little attention is given to drawing an upper limit on its applicability.
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| x Isthmus |
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An isthmus (English pronunciation: /ˈɪsθməs/ or /ˈɪsməs/; plural: isthmuses, isthmi, from Ancient Greek: ἰσθμός, isthmos, neck) is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Of note, the Isthmus of Panama connects the continents of...
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| x Kame |
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A kame is a geological feature, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating glacier, and is then deposited on the land surface with further melting of the glacier. Kames are...
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| x Lake |
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A lake (from Latin lacus) is a terrain feature (or physical feature), a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin (another type of landform or terrain feature; that is, it is not global) and moves slowly if it...
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| x Loch |
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A loch (pronounced /ˈlɒx/, or /ˈlɒk/ due to the inability of most English-speakers outside of Scotland to use the voiceless velar fricative; usually spelled Lough as a name element outside Scotland) is a body of water which is either:
Sea-inlet...
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| x Marsh |
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In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood. Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. Woody plants will be low...
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| x Mesa |
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A mesa (Spanish for "table") is an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs. It takes its name from its characteristic table-top shape.
It is a characteristic landform of arid environments, particularly the...
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| x Mixed Forest | Mixed Forest | Code category |
A generic description of mixed forest.
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| x Mixedwood boreal forest | Calling Lake Fragmentation Experiment Area | Code category |
Deciduous-dominated forest with an overstory composed of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides), balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), white spruce (Picea glauca), and white birch (Betula papyrifera).
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| x Mountain |
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Mount Tamalpais | Art Subject |
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. The adjective montane is used to describe mountainous areas and things associated...
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| x Mountain pass |
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In a range of hills, or especially of mountains, a pass (also gap, notch, col, saddle, bwlch, brennig or bealach) is a path that allows to cross a mountain chain, it is usually a saddle point in between two areas of higher elevation. If following...
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| x Natural arch |
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A natural arch or natural bridge is a natural formation (or landform) where a rock arch forms, with a natural passageway through underneath. Most natural arches form as a narrow ridge, walled by cliffs, become narrower from erosion, with a softer...
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