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vocab 1-14
geography words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates | absolute location |
| a group of islands close together in an ocean or sea | archipelago |
| area of land drained by a given river and its branches; area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevation. | Basin |
| a part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf. | Bay |
| deep and narrow valley with steep walls | canyon |
| point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean | cape |
| channel | wide straight or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to eachother |
| divide | strech of high land that separates river systems |
| lowland | land usually leveled at a low elevation. |
| longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian measured in degrees. |
| latitide | distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees. |
| lake | a sizeable inland body of water. |
| narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land masses. | ithmus |
| land area smaller than a continent completely surounded by water. | island |
| hill | elavated land with sloping sides and rounded summit; generally smaller than a mountain. |
| elvated area such as a hill, mountain or plateau. | highland |
| a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor saftely. | harbor |
| gulf | Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline; generallylarger and more deeply indented than a bay. |
| glacier | large, thick body of slowly moving ice. |
| a long, narrow coastal inlet with steep sides, often formed by glacial action,especially | fjord |
| cliff | steep high wall of rock earth or ice |
| continent | one of t he seven large landmasses on the earth |
| countour lines | lines that join points of equal elevation on the surface of the land above or below a referance surface, such as mean sea level |
| charactaristic that humans have created in a place such has language, religion, housing, or settelment patterns | culteral feature |
| flat low lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth | delta |
| downstream | direction in which a river or stream closed from its source to its mouth |
| elevation | height of land above sea leval |
| equater | imaginary line that runs around the earth between the north and south poles, used as the starting point to measure degrees of north and south latitude. |
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