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Physical G. vocab
social studies vocabulary terms for Physical Geography.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a basin? | An erea of land surrounded by lands of higher elevations. |
| What is a Bay? | The part of as large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf. |
| What is a canyon? | A deep and narrow valley with steep walls. |
| What is a Cape? | A point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean. |
| What is a channel? | A wide strait or waterway between 2 landmasses thast lie close to each other. |
| What is a cliff? | A step, high walll of rock, earth or ice. |
| What is a continent? | One of the 7 large landmasses on earth. |
| What is a delta? | A flat, low lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposits at its moth. |
| What is a desert? | A region of Vegetation, either cold or hot, that recieves ten inches or less rainfall per year. |
| What is a glacier? | A large thick body, of slowly moving ice. |
| What is a gulf? | Part of a large body of water that extends into a shorline. (Generally smaller than a bay) |
| What is a Harbor? | A sheltered place along a shorline where ships can dock safely? |
| What is a hill? | Elavated land with sloping sides and a rounded summit. |
| What is an island? | A land area smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water. |
| What is an isthmus? | A narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas. |
| What is a lake? | A seizable inland body of water. |
| What is a mesa? | A broad flat topped landform with steep sides. |
| Waht is a mountain? | Land with steep sides that rise sharply, from surrounding land. |
| What is a mouth (of a river?) | A place where a stream or river flows into a river flows into a larger body of water. |
| What is an ocean? | One of the 4 major bodies of water thats surrounded by continents. |
| What is ocean current? | A stream of either cold or warm water that moves in a definite direction through the ocean. |
| What is a peninsula? | A body of land jutting into a lake or ocean surrounded by 3 sides of water. |
| What is a plain? | An area of level land often at low elevations often covered with tall grasses. |
| What is a plateau? | An area of flat rolling land at a high elevation about 300-3000 feet high. |
| What is a rain forest? | A tropical dense evergreen woodland with an anual rain fall of 100 inches+. |
| What is a river? | A large natural stream of water that runs through land. |
| What is a sea? | A large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land. |
| What is a source (of a river?) | A place where a river or stream starts often in the highlands. |
| What is a strait? | A narrow stretch of water joining 2 larger bodies of water. |
| What is a tributary? | A branch of a river that flows into a bigger river. |
| What is a tundra? | A region of vegetation at high latitudes, high elavations, and characterized by cold temperatures and sparse vegetation. |
| What is a valley? | An area of low lying land between hills or mountains. |
| What is a volcanoe? | A mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth. |
| What is a sound? | A broad inland body of water, often near costline and off coast islands. |
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