Geography YWLA 6th Word Scramble
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bay | a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf. |
valley | an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream. |
plateau | a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons. |
gulf | a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land. |
delta | flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth |
peninsula | an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland. |
island | a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent. |
prairie | an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west. |
lines of longitude | distance measured in degrees east or west of the prime meridian. |
lines of latitude | distance measured in degrees north and south of the equator. |
prime meridian | an imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude that circles the planet from north to south and divides the earth into western and eastern hemispheres. |
equator | an imaginary line forming a circle around the Earth's surface, equal distance from the poles and in a plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation. Divides the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres the basis for which latitude is measured. |
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