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copse (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A small group of trees.

(He glanced in the rearview mirror, watching the droolworthy vehicle disappear behind a ............................ of trees as he headed around a curve in the road.)

footpath (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A path, especially in the countryside, for walking on.

(These mark individual parking spaces and the metal bollards are to prevent vehicles parking on the ........................)

hillock (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A small hill.

(During the open day, but more especially in the evening, these birds may be seen in every direction standing frequently by pairs on the ....................... near their burrows.)

gorge (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually formed by a river or stream cutting through hard rock.

(The ............... slowly widens northward to reveal river benches, flood plains, and broadening bottomland, most of which are now artificially flooded.)

hollow (a) (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

Having a hole or empty space inside.

(Nests are located inside high, .................... branches, well outside the range of land-bound predators.)

ridge (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A long, narrow raised part of a surface, especially a high edge along a mountain.

(Occasionally I glimpsed in the west a forested, razorback ..................... sloping toward the equatorial lowlands below.)

estuary (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

The wide part of a river at the place where it joins the sea.

(Soil eroded from newly developed housing sites and washed into the .................... to accumulate there without benefit of filtering by impacted wetlands.)

inlet (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A narrow strip of water that goes from a sea or lake into the land or between islands.

(The coolant then flows from the ................ to the outlet through many tubes mounted and arranged in a parallel pattern.)

cove (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A curved part of a coast that partly surrounds an area of water.

(I waded into the water, hoping to follow the fish out the opening to the .................. and avoid breaking the line on the sharp coral.)

brook (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A small stream.

(There in the bottom of the .................. was a seam of amethyst crystals that averaged perhaps to be one half inch thick and a inch long.)

tributary (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A river or stream that flows into a larger river or a lake.

(Fieldwork was planned to coincide with high tides, which allowed the johnboat to travel closer to the marsh edge and further up .............. creeks.)

county (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A political division of the UK or Ireland, forming the largest unit of local government, or the largest political division of a state in the US.

(This trunk road passes through the centre of the ................ and is the prime route from London to Edinburgh.)

puddle (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A small pool of liquid on the ground, especially from rain.

(Some rabbit babies get dirty in a mud ................. but the day is saved when Tag finds a cleansing spring of water by divining with a hazel twig.)

cape (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A very large piece of land sticking out into the sea.

(Without wasting a moment we head for the last ................ of the Peninsula de Paria, with the help of a GPS that they inexplicably left behind.)

depopulation (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

The action of causing a country or area to have fewer people living in it.

(Many regions have suffered ............... precisely because of the declining job prospects and poor infrastructure available.)

fertile (a)

Sub-topic: Geography.

Fertile land can produce a large number of good quality crop.

(Because these forest enclaves are more .................. than the surrounding caatinga scrub, humans prefer to live in them.)

densely populated (a)

Sub-topic: Geography.

Any location with either one or more multifamily housing units or eight or more single-family dwellings located within a quarter section.

(Rural areas were less ...................... with basically the same family structure until social security and child labor laws came about.)

under-developed (a)

Sub-topic: Geography.

(especially of a country) without modern industry or modern services that provide transport, hospitals, etc.

(A system of economically specialized zones suited the ...................... countryside, with its sharp geographical contrasts and large areas of uncleared common pasture.)

summit (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

An important formal meeting between leaders of governments from two or more countries.

(At the ................ meeting, the leaders discussed renaming the group to better reflect its new initiatives and composition.)

peninsula (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake.

(A narrow neck of land at the southeast corner of the ................ connects it with the adjacent upland.)

glacier (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A large mass of ice that moves slowly.

(Drift includes the unassorted material known as till and deposits made by streams flowing from a ...............)

plateau (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A large flat area of land that is high above sea level.

(The Massif Central is a large mountainous ................ in the central area, which includes the ancient volcanoes of the Auvergne region.)

irrigation (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

The practice of supplying land with water so that crops and plants will grow.

(High frequency ................ with nutritive solutions negatively affects both yield and dry matter content in tubers.)

conurbation (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A city area containing a large number of people, formed by various towns growing and joining together.

(Expansion of the Basel ..................... beyond the French and German borders has intensified the need for cross-border planning.)

tributary (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A river or stream that flows into a larger river or a lake.

(Maybe someday, sticky and sweaty, I'll be tempted to skinny-dip in some meandering .................. of the Amazon River.)

overcrowding (n)

Sub-topic: Geography.

A situation when a place contains too many people or things.

(If criminals were encouraged to conduct their own prosecutions, this would provide an instant solution to the problem of prison .....................)