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Zhiyu W. (China)
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  1. abyss
    a bottomless gulf or pit
  2. altitude
    elevation above sea level or above the earth's surface
  3. archipelago
    a group of many islands in a large body of water
  4. aurora
    bands of light caused by charged solar particles
  5. basin
    a bowl-shaped vessel used for holding food or liquids
  6. bay
    an indentation of a shoreline smaller than a gulf
  7. canyon
    a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
  8. Carpathians
    a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area
  9. carven
    made for or formed by carving
  10. cascade
    a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
  11. cataclysm
    a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  12. channel
    a deep and relatively narrow body of water
  13. cliff
    a steep high face of rock
  14. coastline
    the outline of a coast
  15. continental drift
    the gradual movement of very large land masses
  16. continental shelf
    the relatively shallow seabed surrounding a continent
  17. coral reef
    a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
  18. delta
    the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
  19. deposit
    the act of putting something somewhere
  20. dune
    a ridge of sand created by the wind
  21. elevation
    distance of something above a reference point
  22. enclave
    an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct
  23. eon
    the longest unit of geological time
  24. equator
    an imaginary line around the Earth forming a great circle
  25. evaporation
    the process of becoming a suspension of particles in the air
  26. fieldstone
    stone that occurs naturally in fields
  27. frigid
    extremely cold
  28. frost heaving
    upthrust of ground or pavement caused by the freezing of moist soil
  29. geothermal
    of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth
  30. glacier
    a slowly moving mass of ice
  31. gorge
    a deep ravine, usually with a river running through it
  32. gulf
    an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land
  33. hemisphere
    half of a round, three-dimensional shape
  34. highland
    elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
  35. hillside
    the side or slope of a hill
  36. horizon
    the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
  37. International Date Line
    an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
  38. islet
    a small island
  39. lagoon
    a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef
  40. latitude
    an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  41. longitude
    the angular distance from the prime meridian at Greenwich
  42. lowland
    low level country
  43. meridian
    an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth
  44. oasis
    a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary
  45. ocean bottom
    the bottom of a sea or ocean
  46. Pangaea
    (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
  47. parallel
    being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
  48. peak
    a V shape
  49. peninsular
    of a mass of land projecting into a body of water
  50. plateau
    a relatively flat raised area of land
  51. Pompeii
    ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
  52. precipice
    a very steep cliff
  53. Pyrenees
    a chain of mountains between France and Spain
  54. range
    a variety of different things or activities
  55. reef
    a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the water's surface
  56. ridge
    a long narrow natural elevation or striation
  57. riverbed
    a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river
  58. salinity
    the relative proportion of salt in a solution
  59. Scandinavia
    a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe
  60. sediment
    matter that has been deposited by some natural process
  61. strait
    a narrow channel joining two larger bodies of water
  62. subcontinent
    a large, distinct landmass that is part of a larger landmass
  63. subterranean
    being or operating under the surface of the earth
  64. temperate
    not extreme
  65. terrain
    a piece of ground having specific characteristics
  66. terrestrial
    of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth
  67. territory
    a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  68. tide
    the periodic rise and fall of the sea level
  69. time zone
    a geographical region that uses the same standard time
  70. topography
    the configuration of a surface and its features
  71. torrent
    an overwhelming number or amount
  72. tributary
    a branch that flows into the main stream
  73. tropical
    relating to part of the Earth's surface with hot climate
  74. tropics
    the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
  75. tundra
    a vast treeless plain where subsoil is permanently frozen
  76. valley
    a long depression in the surface of the land
  77. Vesuvius
    a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast
  78. waterfall
    a place where a river or stream flows down
  79. watershed
    a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
Created on Thu Jun 02 02:57:10 EDT 2011

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