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ALL NE GeoBee Terms

Glossary of ALL Northeast School Family Geography Bee Terms 2015

Term	Definition
Distance above sea level	altitude
An underground reservoir of water that can be extracted for surface use	aquifer
A group of islands or a sea studded with islands	archipelago
A bound collection of maps	Atlas
Also known as northern lights; spectacular colored lights that appear in the sky in the far Northern Hemisphere	Aurora Borealis
A generic term for any slide of snow, ice, and debris	avalanche
A wide area of water extending into land from a sea or lake	bay
Lines indicating the limits of countries, states, or other political jurisdictions	boundaries
A man-made water course designed to carry goods or water	canal
A large but narrow gorge with steep sides	canyon
A piece of land extending into water	cape (or point)
A person who draws or makes maps or charts	cartographer
The art and science of making maps	cartography
The long-term trends in weather conditions for an area	climate
A device used to determine geographic direction, usually consisting of a magnetic needle	compass
A symbol on a compass or map that is circular with graded points indicating the directions	compass rose
One of the large, continuous areas of the Earth into which the land surface is divided	continent
The current theory that the continents of the Earth move across the earth on giant tectonic plates	Continental Drift
The extension of the continents into the ocean; the ___ land would be exposed if the sea level dropped	continental shelf
A map that shows points of equal elevation as a line	contour map
The fan-shaped area at the mouth, or lower end, of a river, formed by eroded material that has been carried downstream and dropped in quantities larger than can be carried off by tides or currents	delta
A land area so dry that little or no plant life can survive. They can be hot or cold.	desert
The raising of a portion of the Earth’s crust relative to its surroundings, as in a mountain range; or the altitude of an object, such as a celestial body, above the horizon	elevation
The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the hypocenter, where the energy of an earthquake is first released	epicenter
An imaginary circle around the Earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole; the largest circumference of the Earth	equator
Forces that shape the Earth’s surface. Includes water, wind and ice	erosion
The wide end of a river when it meets the sea; salty tidal water mixes with the fresh water of the river here	estuary
A fracture in rock where there has been movement and displacement	fault
A narrow, steep-sided inlet of the sea that was carved by a glacier	fjord
A flat, low-lying area near a river or stream that is subject to flooding	floodplain
A large body of ice that moves slowly down a mountainside from highlands toward sea level	glacier
A body with the shape of a sphere, especially a representation of the Earth in the form of a hollow ball	globe
A large arm of an ocean or sea extending into a land mass	gulf
Half of the Earth, usually conceived as resulting from the division of the globe into two equal parts, north and south or east and west	hemisphere
A tropical storm that contains winds of at least 74 miles per hour (119km/h). Also known as a cyclone in the northern Indian Ocean and a typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean	hurricane
A thick mass of ice extending from a polar shore. The seaward edge is afloat and sometimes extends hundreds of miles out to sea	ice shelf
An imaginary line of longitude generally 180° East or West of the prime meridian. The date becomes one day earlier to the east of the line	International Date Line
An area of land, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water	island
A narrow strip of land located between two bodies of water, connecting two larger land areas	isthmus
A shallow area of water separated from the ocean by a sandbank or by a strip of low land	lagoon
A body of fresh or salt water entirely surrounded by land	lake
The angular distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees	latitude
Magma that reaches the Earth's surface through a volcanic vent or fissure	lava
A listing that contains symbols and other information about a map	legend
The angular distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees	longitude
Molten rock that lies beneath the surface of the Earth; once exposed, magma becomes lava	magma
A representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the Earth	map
An explanatory description or legend to features on a map or chart	map key
A line of longitude	meridian
A large, flat-topped but steep-sided landform; they shrink to become buttes	mesa
A wind system in Southeast Asia that changes direction seasonally, creating wet and dry seasons	Monsoon
A high point of land rising steeply above its surroundings	mountain
A spot in a desert made fertile by water	oasis
The salt water surrounding the great land masses, and divided by the land masses into several distinct portions, each of which is called an ………	ocean
A line of latitude	parallel
The highest point of a mountain	peak
A piece of land extending into the sea almost surrounded by water	peninsula
A large area of land, either level or gently rolling, usually at low elevation	plain
An elevated area of mostly level land, sometimes containing deep canyons	Plateau (or Tableland)
A map that shows such things as national and state boundaries and the names and locations of towns and cities	Political Map
A map that shows identifiable landmarks such as mountains, rivers, lakes and oceans, and other permanent geologic features	Physical Map
The surface of the Earth is composed of many large plates that slowly move around the planet, meeting and diverging, creating a variety of earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains at their margins	Plate Tectonics
The number of people inhabiting a place	population
An imaginary line running from north to south through Greenwich, England, used as the reference point for longitude	Prime Meridian
A group or chain of high elevations	range (or mountain range)
A chain of rocks, often coral, lying near the water surface	reef
A map that depicts land elevations	Relief Map
A man-made lake where water is kept for future use	reservoir
A stream, larger than a creek, generally flowing to another stream, a lake, or to the ocean	river
The relationship of the length between two points as shown on a map and the distance between the same two points on the Earth	scale
A relatively large body of salt water completely or partially enclosed by land	sea
The ocean surface; the mean level between high and low tides	sea level
A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water	strait
The permanent swamp of the Nile	Sudd
A tract of permanently saturated low land, usually overgrown with vegetation. (A marsh is temporarily or periodically saturated.)	swamp
Areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time	time zone
A detailed, large-scale contour map showing human and physical features	Topographic Map
The physical features of a place; or the study and depiction of physical features, including terrain relief	Topography
A stream; flowing into a larger stream	tributary
A relatively long, narrow land area lying between two areas of higher elevation, often containing a stream	valley
A vent in the Earth's crust caused by molten rock coming to the surface and being ejected, sometimes violently	volcano
A sudden drop of a stream from a high level to a much lower level	waterfall
The area into which a river and its tributaries drain	watershed
Having to do with mountains or high elevations	alpine
Very dry because of having little water	arid
A bowl-shaped depression made by the impact of a meteorite on earth's surface	crater
A unit of angular measure.	degree
A rapid movement of rock or earth down a steep slope	landslide
Either of two points where the earth's axis meets the earth's surface	pole
A flat grassland with scattered trees found in hot, dry regions	savanna
The region of the earth that is near the equator and has the world's most humid climate	tropics
The treeless biome in high altitudes that has permafrost	tundra
A marsh, swamp, or other low-lying are where the ground is wet or flooded during all or parts of the year	wetland
A hot spring through which jets of heated water and steam erupt	geyser

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