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Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Land,usally level, at a low elavation | Lowland |
| Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees | Longitude |
| Distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees | Latitude |
| lake | a sizable inland body of water |
| isthmus | Narrow strecth of land connecting two larger landmasses |
| island | land area, samller than a continent, completly surounded by water |
| Elavated land with sloping sides and rounded summit;genrally smaller a mountain | Hill |
| highland | Elavated area such as a hill, mountain, or plateau |
| Harbor | A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchore safely |
| Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline; generally larger and more deeply indented than a bay | Gulf |
| Glacier | Large, thick body of slowly moving ice |
| Fjord | A long narrow coastal intel with steep sides, often formed by glaciel action, especially along the western coast of Norway |
| Equator | Imaginary line that runs around the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles; used as the starting point to measure degrees of north and south latitude. |
| Elavation | Hieght of land above the sea level |
| Direction in which a river or stream flows from its source to its mouth | Downstream |
| Divide | Stretch of highland that seperates river systems |
| FLat low lying land built up from soil carried down stream by a river deposite at the mouth | Delta |
| cultural feature | Charecteristic that humans have created in a place such as language, religion, housing, or setttlment patterns |
| contour lines | lines that join points of equal elevations on the surface of the land above or below a refernce surface such as mean sea level |
| continent | One of seven large landmasses on the Earth |
| steap high walls of rock, ice, or earth | Cliff |
| channel | Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other |
| Cape | Point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean |
| A deep and narrow valley with steep walls | canyon |
| part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline generally smaller than a gulf | Bay |
| An area of land drained by a given river and its branches; area of land surrouned by lands of higher elavation | basin |
| Archipelago | A group of islands close together in an ocean or sea |
| Absolute Location | Exact location of a place on earth described by global coordanints (latitude and longitude) |
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