3rd Grade Chapter 2 Vocabulary - Our Communities

land surrounded by water on three sides

• peninsula

• landform

• plateau

• plain

the weather of a place over a long period of time

• adapt

• weather

• climate

• environment

a large area of flat land

• landform

• plateau

• peninsula

• plain

to become used to something

• recycle

• adapt

• wildlife

• environment

the study of Earth's surface, the bodies of water that cover it, and how Earth is important to people's lives

• environment

• geography

• adapt

• mineral

the air, water, land, and living things around us

• geography

• wildlife

• climate

• environment

animals and plants that live naturally in an area

• wildlife

• geography

• environment

• natural resources

something found in nature that people use

• adapt

• wildlife

• recycle

• natural resource

a thing found in the earth, that is not a plant or an animal

• recycle

• natural resource

• mineral

• wildlife

high, flat land that is raised above surrounding land

• plain

• plateau

• landform

• peninsula