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Review of Lists 1-5
Lots of words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| mouth (of a river) | a place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water |
| bay | the part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf |
| source (of a river) | a place where a river or stream begins, often in highlands |
| strait | a narrow stretch of water joining 2 larger bodies of water |
| Tributary | a small river or stream that flows into a large river or stream; a branch of the river |
| gulf | part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally larger and more deeply indented than a bay |
| peninsula | a body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on 3 sides by water |
| hill | elevated land with sloping sides and a rounded summit; generally smaller than a mountain |
| island | a land area, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water |
| isthmus | a narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas |
| Objective | Something worked toward or striven for; a goal. |
| Rubric | A tool to assess work describing different levels of performance. |
| Evaluation | Examining and carefully judging something |
| Assessment | An activity that shows what you know and can do. |
| Geography | Geography is the study of the earth in all its variety—human and natural—focusing on how locations affect all other aspects of a place. |
| Standard | A degree or level of requirement, excellence, or attainment |
| Strategy | A way of doing something difficult |
| Percent | Out of each hundred, per hundred |
| Grammar | Rules of language and how words and punctuation combine to form sentences. |
| Punctuation | The standard marks and signs, besides letters, in writing and printing |
| Data | Information |
| Classify | Putting objects into groups based on their characteristics |
| Experiment | Test of a hypothesis controlling variables |
| Hypothesis | A possible solution to a problem or answer to a question- can be put in an “If….then…” statement |
| Predict | To guess the future based on what you already know |
| continent | one of the 7 large landmasses on the earth |
| channel | a wide strait or waterway between 2 landmasses that lie close to each other; deep part of a river or other waterway |
| cliff | a steep, high wall of rock, earth, or ice |
| desert | a region of vegetation, either cold or hot, that receives ten inches or less of precipitation each year |
| glacier | a large, thick body of slowly moving ice |
| canyon | a deep and narrow valley with steep walls |
| cape | a point of land that extends into a river, lake or ocean |
| lake | a sizable inland body of water |
| mesa | broad, flat-topped landform with steep sides; smaller than a plateau |
| mountain | land with steep sides that rises sharply (1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land; generally larger and more rugged than a hill |
| basin | an area of land drained by a given river and its branches; an area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevations |
| ocean | one of the 4 major bodies of salt water that surround the continents |
| Measurement | An observation involving numbers and tools like rulers and scales |
| Variable | Anything that can affect the results of an experiment |
| Scientific Method | A systematic approach to problem solving |
| angle | Two rays with the same endpoint |
| Polygon | A flat (two-dimensional) geometric figure that has the following characteristics:• It is made of straight line segments.and • Each segment touches exactly two other segments, one at each of its endpoints. |
| Culture | The way of life of a group of people with similar customs and beliefs |
| regular polygon | A polygon with sides that are all the same length and angles that are all the same size. |
| ocean current | a stream of either cold or warm water that moves in a definite direction through an ocean |
| concave polygon | A polygon that looks like it is “collapsed” or has a “dent” on one or more sides. Any polygon with an angle measuring more than 180° |
| plain | an area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses |
| plateau | an area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300-3,000 feet high |
| rain forest | a tropical dense evergreen woodland with an annual rainfall of 100 inches or more |
| river | a large, natural stream of water that runs through the land |
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