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The foreground of the picture on as far as the eye can see. It is a plain. the next page consists of rolling

HIGH, MOUNTAINOUS LAND.

land, but you can

see the low hills in the distance. Do you know of any such land in your neighborhood? If so, tell what you can about it.

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Find the stream, the road, the bean-poles, and the corn, in the picture. What does the "cut" in the road-bed tell us of the former level? Where do you suppose the stones were found for building the stone wall? Tell other objects in the picture and what they are doing.

These plains are called prairies, because they are covered with grass.

Do you know of any low, flat land or plain near your home or school? If so, tell us what grows on it. Describe the two scenes of low, flat land.

Some of the land of our earth is neither very high nor very low and flat. It may be hilly, or it may

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LOW, FLAT LAND.

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The part between the high land and the low
land is the slope. The high land slopes or inclines
to the low, flat land.

Some high land descends gradually to the low
land, forming a gradual slope.

Some land descends very abruptly to the low
land, forming an abrupt slope.

Find gradual and abrupt slopes in the pictures on this and
preceding pages. Also find them in your school district or
neighborhood.

Find highlands, lowlands, and slopes in the world-pictures.
Bring in pictures representing as many different highlands,
lowlands, and slopes as possible. Arrange them neatly on stiff
manilla or white paper.

All the land surface of our earth is made up of
HIGH LAND and LOW LAND.

In many places on our earth one looks out on highlands, lowlands, and slopes, streams and bodies

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Find them in the pictures on the next page. In which does
the land appear hilly? In which does it appear mountainous?
What are the indications of life?

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THE OCEAN.

The great body of salt water which surrounds the continents

and most of the islands of the world is the OCEAN or SEA.

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ocean seems largest? Smallest? Which seems most inclosed by land? Through what water would you pass from the Arctic to the Pacific?

The ocean covers about three-fourths From the Arctic to the Atlantic? of the earth.

Draw a circle and show proportion of land and water.

The ocean
ocean has five divisions-the
Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and
Antarctic.

The land bordering the ocean is the sea-coast or sea-shore. Trace the sea-coast of each continent. Which continents have the most regular coast?

Have you ever seen the ocean? If so, tell all you can about it. If you have not, ask someone who has, and tell us what you learn.

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