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Geography Terms

Geography Terms. Archipelago : a string or chain of islands. Bay : a small body of water partially surrounded by land. Butte : a visible hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top (Similar to but smaller than a plateau, mesa and table).

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Geography Terms

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  1. Geography Terms

  2. Archipelago: a string or chain of islands

  3. Bay: a small body of water partially surrounded by land

  4. Butte: a visible hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top (Similar to but smaller than a plateau, mesa and table)

  5. Canal: a man-made waterway for boats or for draining or irrigating land

  6. Canyon: a deep valley or crevice in the earth’s surface, with very steep sides and usually with a river running through it Also known as gorges; ravines are similar, but not as deep

  7. Cape: a point of land that extends into the sea or into a lake

  8. Delta: a triangular, fertile area of land around the mouth of a large river The Nile Delta– northern Egypt

  9. Fjord: a narrow, winding ocean inlet with steep cliff-like sides(carved out by a glacier)

  10. Glacier: a huge sheet of snow or ice moving slowly down a slope (mountain) or valley

  11. What’s the difference between a GLACIER and an ICEBERG? • A glacier is a river of ice, mostly on land. It is fed by snowfields in the mountains and flows down a valley, like a very slow moving river, until it meets with the sea or a lake. • An iceberg is a large piece of ice floating in water. It may have broken off a glacier.

  12. Geyser: a spring from which boiling water and steam gushes into the air in intervals

  13. Gulf: a large portion of the ocean, partially surrounded by land

  14. Island: a body of land completely surrounded by water

  15. Isthmus: a narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land The Isthmus of Panama

  16. Jungle: land densely covered with trees, vines, etc. (typically found in the tropics)

  17. Lagoon: a body of shallow sea or salt water that is separated from a larger sea by some barrier (sand, rock, reef, etc.)

  18. Lake: a large inland body of standing water (usually freshwater) Lake Michigan Lake Winnipesaukee

  19. Mesa: a tall, flat-topped mountain with steep, vertical sides (usually found in dry places) Buttes are small mesas

  20. Ocean: a large body of salt water Pacific Atlantic

  21. Peninsula: a long piece of land surrounded by water on three sides

  22. Plain: a large, flat, and mostly treeless area of land The Great Plains

  23. River: a natural stream of water larger than a brook or creek(typically flowing into an ocean or lake) Mississippi River Merrimack River

  24. Sound: a wide channel linking two larger bodies of water or separating an island from the mainland

  25. Swamp: wet, spongy land often partly covered with water

  26. Tundra: a vast, treeless arctic plain

  27. Volcano: an opening in the Earth’s surface that forms when lava, gases, and rocks erupt, or burst out, from deep inside the Earth Mt. Saint Helens

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