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Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an area that is lower than surrounding land areas; some are filled water | basin |
| a part of a large body of water that extends into the land | bay |
| a small, high, flat-topped landform with cliff-like sides | butte |
| a deep, narrow valley with steep sides; often has a stream flowing through it | canyon |
| a large waterfall or steep rapids | cataract |
| a plain at the mouth of a river, often triangular in shape, formed when material is deposited by flowing water | delta |
| a broad plain on either side of a river, formed when sediment settles during floods | flood plain |
| a huge, slow-moving mass of snow and ice | glacier |
| an area that rises above surrounding land and has a rounded top; lower and usually less steep than a mountain | hill |
| an area of land completely surrounded by water | island |
| a narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land | isthmus |
| a high, flat-topped landform with cliff-like sides; larger than a butte | mesa |
| a landform that rises steeply at least 2,000 feet above surrounding land; usually wide at the bottom and rising to a narrow peak or ridge | mountain |
| a gap between mountains | mountain pass |
| an area of land almost completely surrounded by water and connected to the mainland by an isthmus | peninsula |
| a large area of flat or gently rolling land | plain |
| a large, flat area that rises above the surrounding land; at least one side has a steep slope | plateau |
| the point where a river enters a lake or sea | river mouth |
| a narrow stretch of water that connects two larger bodies of water | strait |
| a low stretch of land between mountains or hills; land that is drained by a river | valley |
| a river or stream that flows into a larger river | tributary |
| an opening in Earth's surface through which molten rock, ash, and gases from Earth's interior escape | volcano |
| exact position on Earth in terms of longitude and latitude | absolute location |
| the raising of plants and animals | agriculture |
| high plateau in Peru and Bolivia | Altiplano |
| height above sea level | altitude |
| all the land drained by the Amazon River | Amazon basin |
| study of humankind in all aspects, especially development and culture | anthropology |
| channel that moves water over a long distance | aqueduct |
| an underground layer where water collects | aquifer |
| land that can be used for farming | arable land |
| scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifcats and other evidence | archaeology |
| group of islands | archipelago |
| very dry desert climates | arid climate |
| object made by a human being | artifact |
| process by which one group takes on the cultural traits of another | assimilation |
| thick layer of gases or air | atmosphere |
| a ring-shaped coral island enclosing a body of water | atoll |
| imaginary line running through Earth between the North and South Poles | axis |
| indigenous peoples of western North Africa | Berbers |
| variety of different kinds of living things in a region or ecosystem | biodiversity |
| number of live births per 1,000 people in a year | birth rate |
| Dutch, French, and other European farmers in colonial South Africa | Boers |
| situation when large numbers of educated people migrate out of a country | brain drain |
| group of people traveling together | caravan |
| a small, light ship developed by the Portuguese that performed well on long voyages | caravel |
| north east south and west are examples of | cardinal directions |
| the science of making maps and globes | cartography |
| crop grown mostly for export | cash crop |
| legal member of a country | citizen |
| independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory | city-state |
| culture with a written language in which people have many different kinds of jobs | civilization |
| average weather of a place over many years | climate |
| long-term significant change to a region's average weather | climate change |
| control by a group , or collective, rather than an individual or single entity | collectivization |
| policy by which one country seeks to rule other areas | colonialism |
| movement of new settlers and their culture to an area | colonialization |
| group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant state | colony |
| diagram of a compass showing direction | compass rose |
| tree that produces cones to carry seeds | coniferous trees |
| Spanish soldier-explorer | conquistador |
| minority group in Egypt that practices Christianity | Copts |
| a formation of rock-like material made up of the skeletons of tiny marine creatures | coral reef |
| range of mountains that parallels another range | cordillera |
| sphere of very hot metal at the center of the Earth | core |
| Spanish person born in Spain's American colonies | criollo |
| Religious wars in which Christian soldiers from Europe aimed to stop the spread of Islam and to retake control of Palestine, also called the Holy Land | Crusades |
| thin layer of rocks and minerals that surrounds Earth's mantle | crust |
| absorbing ideas or customs from other cultures | cultural borrowing |
| spread of cultural traits from one culture to another | cultural diffusion |
| beliefs, customs, practices and behavior of a particular nation or group of people | culture |
| area in which a single culture of cultural trait is dominant | culture region |
| number of deaths per 1,000 people in a year | death rate |
| tree that loses its leaves in the fall | deciduous |
| the loss of forest cover in a region that results from the trees in a forest being destroyed faster than they can grow back | deforestation |
| unit that measures angles | degree |
| scientist who studies human populations | demographer |
| being sent back to one's home country | deportation |
| process of depositing material eroded and carried by water, ice, or wind | deposition |
| removal of salt from seawater | desalination |
| the change when arable land dries out and becomes desert | desertification |
| spread of people from one place to many others | diaspora |
| territory that governs itself but is still tied to its original country | dominion |
| low-lying mountains that separates European Russia from Asiatic Russia | Ural Mountains |
| movement of people from rural to urban areas | urbanization |
| the planning of a city | urban planning |
| area with limited vegetation, such as moss and shrubs | tundra |
| climate with cool summers and bitterly, cold, dry winters | tundra climate |
| storm much like a hurricane | typhoon |
| area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn | tropics |
| location of a place relative to another place | relative location |
| area with at least one unifying physical or human feature such as climate, landforms, population, or history | region |
| storage pool of water | reservoir |
| settlement in the country | rural |
| a semiarid area that lies between the Sahara and moister regions to the south in the northern Africa | Sahel |
| parklike landscape of grasslands with scattered trees that can survive dry spells, found in tropical areas with dry seasons | Savanna |
| section of a map that shows how much distance on the map represents a given distance on the land | scale bar |
| map that shows natural features | physical map |
| mix of human and nonhuman features at a given location | place |
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