Physical Features : Physical Features Social Studies Online
Grade 3
Blueprint Skill : Blueprint Skill Recognize the identifying characteristics of certain geographic features (i.e., peninsula, islands, continents, mountains, rivers, deserts, oceans, and forests).
Geography : Geography What is geography?
Geography : Geography Geography is the study of the earth and how people use it.
What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? : What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? Mountain range
Plain
What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? : What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? Desert
River
What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? : What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? Lake
Oceans
What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? : What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? Coast
Island
What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? : What Are the Different kinds of Physical Features? Peninsula
Mountain Range : Mountain Range Land above the land around it
Mountain Ranges : Mountain Ranges Appalachians
Rocky
Sierra Nevada
Plain : Plain Flat land
Desert : Desert Land with not much rain and few plants
River : River A long body of moving water.
Lake : Lake Water with land
surrounding it.
Oceans : Oceans The world’s largest
bodies of water.
Oceans are made
Of saltwater.
Oceans : Oceans Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Artic Ocean
Coast : Coast The land that borders the
ocean is a coast. The
United States borders
several oceans.
Island : Island An island is land with water surrounding it.
Peninsula : Peninsula Land with water almost surrounding it.