A plateau is an area of relatively level high ground and a plain is a large area of flat land with few trees.
I think so non-french talkers would not understand what they are taking about
•Humans (biosphere) built a dam out of rock materials (lithosphere). Water in the lake (hydrosphere) seeps into the cliff walls behind the dam, becoming groundwater (lithosphere), or evaporating into the air (atmosphere).
A. The formation of new democracies after the fall of the Soviet Union