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flivial environment
looks like a maze for water where rock builds up and is transported and creates an "obsticle" for river flows |
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alluvial fan
looks like land "fans" out from a specific area where fast moving waters transport and deposite weathered material into a flat land |
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lacustrine environments
looks like shallow water and deep water not too far from eachother where there are depressions under lakes and other water to make certain areas shallow/ deep |
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swamps
looks like plantlife submerged in water so much water that land is flooded and easily moves sand and soil leaving plantlife "swimmimg" |
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deserts
looks like ripples in water but its sand where winds cause sand to transportate to random areas making the surface uneven |
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delta
looks like branches of a tree from water to more water where one body of water branches off to a larger body of water |
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beaches and barriers islands
looks like land merges with or is floating in water where sediment is built up over time to create landmasses by or in the middle of oceans or lakes |
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lagoons
looks like a "kiddie pool" of the oceans where there is shallow water seperated from a bigger and deeper body of water |
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tidal flats
looks like a flat deserted island built up sand and mud and stuff with basically no plant life that lays flat |
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reefs
looks like weird random rock stuff in water rock underneath water sometimes around land |
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continental shelf
looks like a part of land under a little water like on a beach part of land towards water that is very shallow before it goes deeper |
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continental slope and rise
looks like a slide under the water that leads to deeper water when u go deeper the part of land under that leads deep into the ocean |
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abyssal plain
looks like a deep dark scary place with weird creatures almost the deepest part of the ocean floor |
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