Flashcards: Geography Terms - 50

About these flashcards

Created by:

Heimel on October 30, 2009

Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.
Pop out
No Messages

You must log in to discuss this set.

Flashcards: Geography Terms - 50

Cliff
A steep, high face of rock.
1/50

Study:

Speller

Learn

Test

Play Games:

Scatter

Space Race

Multiplayer

Terms

Definitions

Cliff A steep, high face of rock.
Prarie A wide area of level or rolling, wet, tall grassland.
Channel The deepest part of a river harbor
Canal An artificial waterway used for irrigation or travel
Butte A tall, isolated rocky hill or mountain with a flat top and steep sides.
Canyon A deep valley with high, steep walls.
Peninsula A landform surrounded by water on three sides
Forest A large area thickly covered with trees
Jungle Land covered by dense tropical vegetation.
Geyser A natural hot spring that intermittently ejects steam and hot water into the air.
Iceberg A mass of floating ice that has broken away from a glacier.
Continent A large, principal land mass.
Mountain A rugged mass of rock that rises above the surrounding landscape with steep slopes and a peak or summit
Gulf An area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land; larger than a bay.
Valley An elongated lowland between mountain ranges or hills; often has a river or stream running along the bottom.
Savanna An open grassland with widely spaced trees in a hot, seasonally dry climate.
Marsh A wetlands area always or sometimes covered with shallow water whose main types of plants are soft-stemmed reeds, sedges, and grasses
Plain A large area of relatively flat or gently rolling land.
Strait A relatively narrow waterway joining two larger bodies of water.
Archipelago An arc-shaped chain of islands.
Swamp A lowland region saturated by water.
Bay A body of water partially enclosed by land with a wide outlet to the ocean.
Glacier A large body of ice that moves across the earth's surface.
Dunes A ridge or hill of sand blown or drifted by the wind in deserts or on beaches.
Delta A triangular plain formed by the gravel, silt, sand, and clay deposited at a river's mouth where it slows to meet another body of water.
Cape A pointed piece of land jetting into the sea from the coastline of a continent or large island.
Desert A dry, barren region that receives little or no precipitation.
Sound A long, relatively wide body of water, larger than a channel or strait, that often connects larger bodies of water.
Fjord A long, narrow coastal valley between tall, rocky cliffs, gouged out by a glacier and flooded by the sea.
Tundra Vast treeless plains with permafrost and small, low plants.
Waterfall A natural stream of water descending from a steep height.
Beach A sandy, pebbly, or rocky shore of a body of water.
Coral Reef A mound or ridge of coral polyps and their hard limestone remains, combined with sand and minerals.
Crater A bowl-shaped depression in the earth or the funnel-shaped opening of a volcano.
Ocean The earth's largest continuous stretches of saltwater.
Island A piece of land, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water.
Badlands A barren area with eroded ridges, peaks and mesas, and sparse vegetation.
Lagoon A shallow pool of water at the center of an atoll.
Hill A natural land elevation smaller than a mountain.
Isthmus A narrow strip of land between two seas or oceans that connects two larger land areas.
River `A stream of water of considerable volume.
Panhandle A narrow projection of a larger territory, as in Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Atoll A ring-shaped island formed by coral buildup on the rim of an underwater volcano.
Mesa Flattop, elevated landform.
Lake A large inland body of fresh or saltwater.
Cave An underground hollow with an opening at the surface.
Rainforest A dense tropical evergreen forest with an annual rainfall of at least 100 inches.
Sea A body of saltwater surrounded almost entirely by land.
Volcano An opening in the earth's crust through which red-hot, melted rock, or magma rises to the surface from deep inside the earth and spills out as lava.
Plateau A very large, flat area of land that usually is higher than the land around it, with at least one steep slope.

Set Champions

Scatter Champion

22.8 secs by clairedanes

Space Race Champion

111,420 points by GabiLandi

Completed “Learn” mode

IzzyOrdiway, ruthhill74, lbrokaw, atho, Heimel