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Geography
Geography Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher land | Basin |
| Inlet of the sea or some other body of water, usually smaller than a gulf | Bay |
| High, steep face of rock or earth | Bluff |
| Point of land that extends into water | Cape |
| Large waterfall | Cataract |
| Deepest part of a body of water | Channel |
| High, steep face of rock or earth | Cliff |
| Land along a sea or ocean | Coast |
| 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 long 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 silt deposited by floods | Floodplain |
| Hilly area at the base of a mountain | Foothills |
| Large ice mass that moves slowsly down a mountain or across land | Glacier |
| Part of a sea or ocean extending into the land, usually larger than a by | Gulf |
| Land that rises above the land around it | Hill |
| Any area of water extending into the land from a larger body of water | Inlet |
| Land that is surrounded by water | Island |
| Narrow strip of land connecting two large land masses | Isthmus |
| Body of shallow water | Lagoon |
| Body of water surrounded by land | Lake |
| Lowland with moist soil and tall grasses | Marsh |
| Flat-topped mountain with steep sides | Mesa |
| Highest kind of land | Mountain |
| Gap between mountains | 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 |
| Area of flat or gently rolling low land | 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 |
| Lnd along a river | Riverbank |
| Area of grassland and scattered trees | Savanna |
| Body of salt water smaller than an ocean | Sea |
| The level of the surface of an ocean or sea | Sea level |
| Side of ahill 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 flows into a larger stream or river | Tributary |
| Low land between hills or mountains | Valley |
| Opening in the earth, orten raised, through wich lava, rock, ashes, and gases are forced out | Volcano |
| Steep drop from a high place to a lower place in a stream or river | Waterfall |
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