geography definitions
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| archipelago | a large group or chain of islands
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| atlas | a book of maps or charts
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| atoll | a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain
of islands formed of coral that
encircles a lagoon
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| bay | a body of water partly enclosed by land;
usually smaller than a gulf
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| canal | an artificial, long, narrow strip of water
made to allow the passage of boats
or ships or for irrigaIon
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| canyon | a deep and narrow valley
with very steep sides; usually created by
water erosion as a river moves
between the canyon walls
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| continent | any of the world’s large
expanses of land
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| delta | a flat, low-lying land built up from sand, silt, and small rocks that are carried downstream
by a river and deposited at its mouth
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| desert | a dry, waterless, barren area of land,
often covered with sand, that has little
or no trees and a low average
yearly rainfall
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| equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth
equally distant from the North and South
Poles that divides the earth into northern
and southern hemispheres
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| glacier | a large, long-lastIng river of dense,
slow-moving ice
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| island | a piece of land surrounded by water
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| isthmus | a narrow strip of land with water
on both sides that joins two larger
land masses
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| lagoon | a shallow body of water along a coastline
that is separated from a larger body of
water by barrier islands or reefs
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