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Geography Vocabulary
Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| altitude | elevation or height above sea level |
| archipelago | a group or chain of many islands in a sea (usually shaped like an arch) |
| arm | an inlet from the sea or other body of water |
| atoll | a small island the shape of a ring or a horseshoe formed by deposits of coral sea animals |
| bank | the steep or sloping border of any stream |
| basin | a low place in the surface of the land, usually with a body of water occupying the lowest part |
| bay | any inlet of the ocean or part of the ocean bordering on land and partly surrounded by land. |
| bayou | a slow, sluggish stream; usually used to describe inlets from the Gulf of Mexico or from the Mississippi River |
| beach | the pebbly or sandy shore of the sea or of a lake that is washed by the waves |
| bluff | a steep high bank beside a body of water |
| bog | a very wet spongy ground not able to support much weight, usually made up of decayed plants |
| branch | a small stream or creek emptying into a larger stream |
| breakers | waves breaking into foam as they approach or dash against the shore |
| brink | the very edge at the top of a bluff, cliff, or precipice |
| brook | a natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek |
| canal | a constructed channel filled with water used for navigation, irrigation, or drainage |
| canyon | a deep, narrow valley having high, steep slopes |
| cape | a narrow piece of land projecting into the sea |
| cave | a deep hollowed out area under the Earth's surface |
| cavern | a large cave of room size or larger |
| channel | a narrow strip of water |
| chasm | an empty, deep gap in the surface of the Earth |
| cinder cone | a cone-shaped mass of material made by volcanic eruption |
| cliff | the steep, rocky face of a bluff |
| coast | land along the sea |
| continent | any one of the seven largest areas of land on the Earth's surface |
| continental shelf | the shallow sea area bordering the continents |
| country | a nation or area of land that is politically controlled by one government |
| cove | a small, sheltered inlet from any body of water |
| crag | a projecting point of rock,usually perpendicular or nearly so |
| crater | the bowl shaped opening at the top of a volcano |
| creek | a natural stream of running water larger than a brook but smaller than a river |
| cultivated land | land that is plowed or spaded and used for growing crops |
| current | the swiftly moving part of a stream |
| dale | a small valley |
| dam | a bank or wall built across a stream to hold back water |
| dell | a small, sheltered valley or ravine |
| delta | a deposit, usually triangular in shape, of sand or soil that forms at the mouth of a river |
| desert | a large area of land with little or no moisture or vegetation |
| dike | earth or other material built up along a river or ocean to keep the water from overflowing on land |
| divide | a water parting or watershed that separates two drainage areas |
| downstream | the direction in which a stream is flowing |
| drainage basin | the area from which a single stream or river and its tributaries drains all of the water |
| dune | a hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind |
| earth | the planet which people live on |
| elevation | height or distance above sea level |
| estuary | a narrow arm of sea at the mouth of a river where the ocean tide meets the river current |
| fall line | the line connecting the places where the streams emerge from the uplands onto lowlands usually marked by waterfalls or rapids |
| field | an area of cleared land, often bounded by fences |
| fjord | a deep, narrow inlet of the sea between high, steep banks |
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