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Like plateaus, plains are broad and flat. Unlike plateaus, plains are lower than their surroundings. That is how plains and plateaus are alike and different. By Kameelah Williams, age 10 resource Houghton Mifflin Science book page C7, School Samuel T. Busansky Elementry School.

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