Geography Terms

Kris O.
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  1. butte
    a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region
  2. canal
    long and narrow strip of water for boats or for irrigation
  3. canyon
    a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
  4. delta
    the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
  5. desert
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  6. glacier
    a slowly moving mass of ice
  7. gulf
    an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land
  8. isthmus
    a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
  9. mesa
    flat tableland with steep edges
  10. mountain
    a land mass that projects well above its surroundings
  11. plain
    simple
  12. plateau
    a relatively flat raised area of land
  13. strait
    a narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water
  14. valley
    a long depression in the surface of the land
  15. atoll
    an island consisting of a coral reef surrounding a lagoon
  16. geography
    study of the earth's surface
  17. latitude
    an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  18. longitude
    the angular distance from the prime meridian at Greenwich
  19. hemisphere
    half of a round, three-dimensional shape
  20. meridian
    an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth
Created on Mon Aug 09 16:07:27 EDT 2010 (updated Wed Aug 17 11:02:24 EDT 2011)

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