Challenge A Geography Flashcards

Challenge A Geography Flashcards

Altitude

the elevation of an object in relationship to a given plane, often sea level

Archipelago

a body of water interspersed with many isles

Arm

a long, narrow passage of water; a creek

Atoll

a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or set of small islands nearly or completely surrounding a lagoon

Bank

a steep slope of ground rising from a lake, a river, or the sea

Basin

a hollow place for water; an enclosed part of water, forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance; a little bay

Bay

an arm of the sea, extending into the land, smaller than a gulf and larger than a creek

Bayou

a soggy, swampy, slow-moving body of water, obstructed by vegetation

Beach

a shore of the sea or of a lake, washed by the tide and waves

Bluff

a high bank, almost perpendicular, projecting into the sea

Bog

soft, wet ground covered with grass or other plants, too soft to bear a man

Branch

a smaller stream running into a larger one or proceeding from it

Breakers

a rock that breaks the waves; a wave that breaks against a rock, a sand bank, or the shore, exhibiting a white foam

Brink

the edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice or the bank of a river

Brook

a small natural stream of water; a current flowing from a spring

Canal

an artificial cut or passage for water used for transportation

Canyon

a long deep hollow with steep, rocky sides worn by a stream or torrent of water

Cape

a head land; the head, point, or termination of a neck of land, extending some distance into the sea beyond the common shore

Cave

a hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den; may be natural or artificial

Cavern

a deep naturally hollow place in the earth, deeper than a cave

Channel

an arm of the sea; a straight or narrow sea between two continents or between a continent and an isle

Chasm

a cleft or fissure in a rock or the earth's surface caused by a disrupture

Cinder cone

a cone-shaped hill of volcanic material surrounding an opening in the earth

Cliff

a high, steep almost vertical rock, usually on a coast

Coast

the edge or margin of the land next to the sea; the seashore

Continent

a great extent of land, not disjoined or interrupted by a sea

Continental Shelf

the edge of a continent that is submerged in water

Country

any tract of land or inhabited land; any region, as distinguished from other regions; a kingdom, state, or lesser district

Cove

a small inlet or bay; a recess in the sea shore

Crag

a steep rugged rock; a rough, broken rock or point of a rock