### ground | landmass:

Continent
* All continents are represented, and habitats run from rainforests to polar areas
  - have deserts - except for Europe
* Every continent has a continental margin, some are wider than others
  - core of very ancient metamorphic rocks
  - mermaid myth
  - wide variety of vegetation
* Every continent is in the sea, like an island
  - represented, as are most major biomes and nearly every family of vascular plants
* Most continents also have extensive plains or plateaus
  - have a similar biotic region in their central area
  - possess carnivores
* Some continents possess rodents
  - straddle more than one plate
* appear to go through a supercontinent cycle every several hundred million years.
* are barriers to the passage of tidal bulges
  - generally flat
  - islands are black
  - located in earth
  - made of countries
  - relatively thick layers of continental crust
* are the great landmasses of the earth
  - seven main divisions of land on Earth
* begin to assume their modern distributions.
* break up and reassemble, but they remain floating at the surface.
* can grow when two plates collide , welding, or accreting , the two pieces together.
* change shape and countries disappear overnight
  - size only over hundreds and thousands of years
* come in all shapes and sizes
  - together and destroy habitats
* contain granitic rocks.
* disrupt everything, forcing currents to be shifted either northward or southward.
* erode and deposit at all latitudes.
* exist as stable rigid plates for billions of years.
* float on the earth s mantle in just the same way.
* form by accretion at convergent plate boundaries, taking place over billions of years.
* have a major effect
  - beachs
  - names
* help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
* move over or through ocean basins.
* passively ride on plates.
* plow their way through ocean crust.
* rub against continents.
* shift, the polar caps melt, and cities are reduced to rubble.
* sit on plates made of thick, but light, crust.
* still have roadless wilderness areas where motorized vehicles have never gone.
* take on present shape.
+ Continental shelf: Landforms :: Oceanography :: Biomes
  * Every continent is in the sea, like an island. Most of the island is above the water line, and we see it as a continent. Some of it though, is below the water line. Beyond the continental shelf, the bottom goes down to much greater depths.
+ Fire Emblem, Setting: Video game series
  * Each 'Fire Emblem' game is mainly set on a fictional continent, or a really large area. Some continents are used in more than one game.

Mainland
* are lands.
* is the source of animals that make it to the islands.

Oxbow
* are common along rivers whose channels meander across broad floodplains
  - frameworks
  - stillwater lakes, meaning there is no inflow or outflow of water
* is meander

### ground:

Plain
* Some plains form as ice and water erodes, or wears away, the dirt and rock on higher land.
  * In geography, a 'plain' large area of land with no hills or mountains. Plains mostly are more suitable for farming than plateaus or mountains.
* are flats
  - formed primarily by erosion and the deposition of sediment
* are located in air
  - countrysides
  - landscapes
  - natural things
  - one of the major landforms, or types of land, on Earth
  - political parties
  - used for farmland
  - vast areas that are flat and treeless
* cover a third of Romania, being the predominant form of relief in the south and west.
* exist on every continent.
* grow grasses and grains, and plains people became gatherers and later, farmers.
* pocket gophers prefer succulent forbs in spring and summer but also feed on grasses.
* zebra live in eastern and southeastern Africa where there are only two seasons, wet and dry.
* zebras live in the treeless grasslands and woodlands of eastern and southern Africa.