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Geography Terms 2
Part 2 (Words 26-50)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mesa | broad, flat |
| Mountain | land with steep sides that rises sharply (1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land; generally larger and more rugged than a hill |
| Mountain Peak | pointed top of a mountain |
| Mountain Range | A series of connected mountains |
| Mouth (of a river) | Place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water |
| Ocean | one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents |
| Ocean Current | steam of either cold or warm water that moves in a definite direction through an ocean |
| Parallel | one of many lines on a global grid that circles the earth north or south of the Equator; used to measure degrees of latitude |
| Peninsula | body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water |
| Physical Feature | characteristic of a place occurring naturally, such as a landform, body of water, climate pattern, or resource |
| Plain | area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses |
| Plateau | area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300 |
| Prime Meridian | line of the global grid running from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England; starting point for measuring degrees of east and west longitude. |
| Relief | changes in elevation over a given area of land |
| River | large natural stream of water that runs through the land |
| Sea | large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land |
| Seacoast | land lying next to a sea or an ocean |
| Sound | broad inland body of water, often between coastline and one or more islands off the coast |
| Source (of a river) | place where a river or stream begins, often in highlands |
| Strait | narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water |
| Tributary | small river or stream that flows into a large river or stream; a branch of the river |
| Upstream | direction opposite the flow of a river; toward the source for a river or stream |
| Valley | area of low land between hills or mountains |
| Volcano | mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth |
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