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Geography Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher land. | basin |
| body of water that is part of a sea or an ocean and is partly enclosed by land | bay |
| high, steep face of rock or earth | bluff |
| deep, narrow valley with steep sides | canyon |
| point of land that extends into water | cape |
| high, steep face of rock or earth | cliff |
| land along a sea or ocean | coast |
| area of flat land along a sea or ocean | coastal plain |
| triangle-shaped area of land at the mouth of a river | delta |
| dry land with few plants | desert |
| hill of sand piled up by the wind | dune |
| area along which rivers form waterfalls or rapids as the rivers drop to lower land | fall line |
| flat land that is near the edges of a river and is formed by the silt deposited by floods | floodplain |
| hilly are at the base of a mountain | foothills |
| large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or across land | glacier |
| body of water that is partly enclosed by land but is larger than a bay | gulf |
| area of water where ships can dock safely near land | harbor |
| land that rises above the land around it | hill |
| a narrow strip of water leading into the land from a larger body of water | inlet |
| land that has water on all sides | island |
| narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas of land | isthmus |
| body of water with land on all sides | lake |
| lowland with moist soil and tall grass | marsh |
| flat-topped mountain with steep sides | mesa |
| highest kind of land | mountain |
| gap between mountain | mountain pass |
| row of mountains | mountain range |
| place where a river empties into another body of water | mouth of river |
| area of water and fertile land in a desert | oasis |
| body of salt water larger than a sea | ocean |
| top of a mountain | peak |
| land that is almost completely surrounded by water | peninsula |
| flat land | plain |
| area of high, flat land with steep sides | plateau |
| ridge of sand, rock, or coral that lies at or near the surface of a sea or ocean | reef |
| large stream of water that flows across the land | river |
| land along a river | riverbank |
| body of salt water smaller than an ocean | sea |
| the level that is even with the surface of an ocean or sea | sea level |
| side of a hill or mountain | slope |
| place where a river begins | source of river |
| narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water | strait |
| area of low, wet land with trees | swamp |
| line on a mountain above which it is too cold for trees to grow | timberline |
| stream or river that empties into a larger river | tributary |
| low land between hills or mountains | valley |
| opening in the Earth, often raised, through which lave, rock, ashes, and gases are forced out | volcano |
| steep drop from a high place to a lower place in a stream of river | waterfall |
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