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Geography
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| altitude | the elevation of an object in relationship to a given plane, often sea level |
| archipelago | a body of water interspersed with many isles |
| arm | a long, narrow passage of water; a creek |
| atoll | a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or set of small islands nearly or completely surrounding a lagoon |
| bank | a steep slope of ground rising from a lake, a river, or the sea |
| basin | a hollow place for water; an enclosed part of water, forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance; a little bay |
| bay | an arm of the sea, extending into the land, smaller than a gulf and larger than a creek |
| bayou | a soggy, swampy, slow-moving body of water, obstructed by vegetation |
| beach | the shore of the sea or of a lake, washed by the tide and waves |
| bluff | a high bank, almost perpendicular, projecting into the sea |
| bog | soft, wet ground covered with grass or other plants, too soft to bear a man |
| branch | a smaller stream running into a larger one or proceeding from it |
| breakers | a rock that breaks the waves; a wave that breaks against a rock, a sand bank, or the shore, exhibiting a white foam |
| brink | the edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice or the bank of a river |
| brook | a small natural stream of water; a current flowing from a spring |
| canal | an artificial cut or passage for water used for transportation |
| canyon | a long deep hollow with steep, rocky sides worn by a stream or torrent of water |
| cape | a head land; the head, point, or termination of a neck of land, extending some distance into the sea beyond the common shore |
| cave | a hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den; may be natural or artificial |
| cavern | a deep, naturally hollow place in the earth, deeper than a cave |
| channel | an arm of the sea; a straight or narrow sea between two continents or between a continent and an isle |
| chasm | a cleft or fissure in a rock or the earth's surface caused by a disrupture |
| cinder cone | a cone-shaped hill of volcanic material surrounding an opening in the earth |
| cliff | a high, steep almost vertical rock, usually on a coast |
| coast | the edge or margin of the land next to the sea; the seashore |
| continent | a great extent of land, not disjoined or interrupted by a sea |
| continental shelf | the edge of a continent that is submerged in water |
| country | any tract of land or inhabited land; any region, as distinguished from other regions; a kingdom, state, or lesser district |
| cove | a small inlet or bay; a recess in the sea shore |
| crag | a steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken rock or point of a rock |
| crater | the aperture or mouth of a volcano |
| creek | a small inlet; a recess in the shore of the sea or of a river; a small stream |
| cultivated land | land prepared for crops |
| current | a flowing or passing of water; a stream |
| dale | a low place between hills; a vale or valley |
| dam | a bank or mound of earth; any wall or a frame of wood raised to obstruct a current of water |
| dell | a small vale with woods |
| delta | an area of triangular shaped land located at the mouth of a main river from which distributaries flow |
| desert | a vast sandy plain characterized by minimal precipitation and plant growth |
| dike | a ditch; a mound of earth, stones, or other materials, intended to prevent low lands from being inundated by the sea or a river |
| divide | a ridge that determines the direction water drains for adjacent water systems; a watershed |
| downstream | the direction a river flows; flowing with the current |
| drainage basin | area drained by a river and its tributaries; a watershed |
| dune | hill, mound, or ridge of sand formed by wind |
| earth | the terraqueous globe that we inhabit |
| elevation | elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain |
| estuary | an arm of the sea; the mouth of a river or lake where the tide meets the current |
| fall line | the point where rivers descend rapidly due to a distinct decline in elevation |
| field | a piece of land enclosed for tillage or pasture |
| fjord | a long, narrow, deep valley formed by glacial erosion and flooded by ocean water |
| foothill | a hill at the base of a mountain |
| ford | a place in a river or other water where it may be passed by man or beast on foot or by wading |
| forest | an extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees |
| glacier | a field or an immense mass of ice formed in deep but elevated valleys, remaining frozen throughout the heat of summer |
| glen | a valley; a dale; a depression or space between hills |
| gorge | a narrow hollow with steep, rocky sides worn by a stream or torrent of water |
| grove | a wood of small extent |
| gulch | a small, narrow hollow with steep walls worn by a stream or torrent of water |
| gulf | a recess in the ocean from the general line of the shore into the land; a tract of water extending from the ocean or a sea into the land between two points or promontories; a large bay |
| harbor | a port or haven for ships; a bay or inlet of the sea where ships can moor |
| headland | a cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea or other expanse of water |
| hill | a natural elevation of land; a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land |
| horizon | the line that terminates the view when extended on the surface of the earth |
| iceberg | a hill or mountain of ice; a vast body of ice accumulated in valleys in high northern latitudes |
| inlet | a bay or recess in the shore of the sea, a lake, or a large river; a narrow body of water between isles |
| irrigated land | land watered by causing a stream to flow upon it and spread over it |
| island | a tract of land surrounded by water |
| isthmus | a neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland |
| junction | the place or point of union |
| keys | a chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water; a cay |
| knob | a round hill or mount |
| knoll | the top or crown of a hill; a little round hill or mount; a small elevation of earth |
| lagoon | an enclosed or partially enclosed shallow body of salt water divided from the ocean by low sandy dunes or a coral reef |
| lake | a large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth |
| land | earth; the solid matter that constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe |
| latitude | the distance of any place on the globe, north or south of the equator |
| ledge | a ridge; a prominent row |
| left bank | the slope of ground on the left-hand side of the river when facing downstream |
| levee | a bank or causeway, particularly along a river to prevent inundation |
| locks | the barrier of a canal that confines the water and can be opened or shut at pleasure |
| longitude | the distance of any place on the globe from another place, eastward or westward; the distance of any place from a given meridian |
| marsh | a tract of low land, very wet and miry and overgrown with coarse grass |
| meadow | pasture or grassland annually mown for hay |
| mesa | a flat-topped mountain with steep walls |
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