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vocab 1-14
geography words
Question | Answer |
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exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | absolute location |
a group of islands close together in an ocean or sea | archipelago |
area of land drained by a given river and its branches; area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevation. | Basin |
a part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf. | Bay |
deep and narrow valley with steep walls | canyon |
point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean | cape |
channel | wide straight or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to eachother |
divide | strech of high land that separates river systems |
lowland | land usually leveled at a low elevation. |
longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian measured in degrees. |
latitide | distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees. |
lake | a sizeable inland body of water. |
narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land masses. | ithmus |
land area smaller than a continent completely surounded by water. | island |
hill | elavated land with sloping sides and rounded summit; generally smaller than a mountain. |
elvated area such as a hill, mountain or plateau. | highland |
a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor saftely. | harbor |
gulf | Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline; generallylarger and more deeply indented than a bay. |
glacier | large, thick body of slowly moving ice. |
a long, narrow coastal inlet with steep sides, often formed by glacial action,especially | fjord |
cliff | steep high wall of rock earth or ice |
continent | one of t he seven large landmasses on the earth |
countour lines | lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a referance surface, such as mean sea level |
charactaristic that humans have created in a place such has language, religion, housing, or settelment patterns | culteral feature |
flat low lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth | delta |
downstream | direction in which a river or stream closed from its source to its mouth |
elevation | height of land above sea leval |
equater | imaginary line that runs around the earth between the north and south poles, used as the starting point to measure degrees of north and south latitude. |