CH 6 MAJOR LAND FORM OF THE EARTH

The definition of a river is a natural stream of water that empties into another body of water. An example of a river is the Mississippi River

13 Different Types of Rivers The Perennial River. A perennial river is also called a permanent river. … Periodic River. What is this? … Episodic River. … Exotic River. … Tributary River. … Distributary River. … Underground River. … Man-made Rivers (Aqueducts)

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water.

They affect where people choose to live, the foods they can grow, a region’s cultural history, societal development, architectural choices and building development. They even influence where military sites work best to defend a region.

A gulf landform is the sea or ocean that reaches into land. When looking from outer space the land looks like it is indented with a large body of water that may look like an arm. As you can see in the pictures above, it is a beautiful sight from outer space.

Landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins.

A landform is a natural or artificial land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography

Taxonomic group World species % in India Amphibia 7533 4.63 Reptilia 5817 7.84 Aves 9026 13.66 Mammalia 4629 8.42

Fauna is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora. Flora, fauna are collectively referred to as biota.

 a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period. 2 : plant, bacterial, or fungal life especially : such life characteristic of a region, period, or special environment fossil flora intestinal flora — compare fauna.