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Delve into diverse terrains like mountain ranges and deserts, and water features such as lakes and reefs in this comprehensive geography guide. Learn about unique environments like tundras and wetlands.
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Geography Definitions By Sarah Cu
Mountain Range • A series of mountain ridges alike in form, direction, and origin.
Lake • A large inland body of fresh water or salt water.
Dune • A hill or ridge of wind-blown sand.
Beach • The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
Desert • A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation.
Tundra • A treeless area between the icecap and the tree line of Arctic regions, having a permanently frozen subsoil and supporting low-growing vegetation.
Reef • A strip or ridge of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of water.
Atoll • A ring like coral island and reef that nearly or entirely encloses a lagoon.
Ocean • The entire body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface.
Prairie • An extensive area of flat or rolling, predominantly treeless grassland, especially the large tract or plain of central North America.
Hill • A well-defined natural elevation smaller than a mountain.
Reservoir • An artificial lake, used to store water for various uses.
Wetland • A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water
Rural • Of, relating to, or characteristic of the country
Escarpment • A steep slope or long cliff that results from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.
Bay • A bay is a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
River • A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.
Fault • A fractured surface in the earth's crust along which rocks have travelled relative to each other.
Canal • An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
Cliff • A steep rock face, usually facing the sea.
Mouth (of river) • The end of a river out of which water flows.