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This document provides instructions for students to create a diagram labeling different landforms and topographical features. It includes definitions of key words to describe landforms such as mountain, ridge, valley, depression, plateau, and cliff. It then asks students to shape clay into these different landforms and to label a diagram of topographical features using terms like plain, valley, hill, mountain, ridge, depression, plateau, and cliff.
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