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K's Geographic Terms
Chp. 2 Geography terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An area or "bowl" surrounded by higher land | basin |
| deep narrow valley with steep walls | canyon |
| sttep rock wall | cliff |
| large body of slowly moving ice | glacier |
| high land where rivers "split" | divide |
| high land with a flat top (A mesa is a small one!) | plateau |
| land with a flat to (A plateau is a high one!) | mesa |
| level, grassy land (cows love it!) | plain |
| narrow stretch of water | straight/channel(smaller) |
| moving toward the source of a river or inland | upstream |
| moving toward the mouth of the river...with flow | downstream |
| narrow land connecting two larger pieces of land | isthus |
| land with water on three sides | peninsula |
| body of water that cuts into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf | bay |
| part of a large body of water that cuts into a shoreline, generally larger and more deeply indented than a bay | gulf |
| body of water surrounded by land | lake |
| land with steep sides that rises sharply from the surrounding land | mountain |
| a row of mountains | mountain range |
| one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents | ocean |
| large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land | sea |
| land area, smaller than a continent, and completely surrounded by water | island |
| group of islands | archipelago |
| large natural stream of water that runs through the land | river |
| flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth | delta |
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