Geography Terms

What is a measure of distance north or south of the equator?

What name is used to describe a feature of Earth's land surface?

What is a body of salt water that is partly enclosed by land

What is a dry barren area of land that is desolate and without water?

What is a large landmass?

What is a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, linking two larger areas of land?

What is the study of the Earth's surface?

What is a land area that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some/all of the year?

What is plant life?

What is a low area of land between hills or mountains?

What is the physical features of a region?

What is the typical weather conditions at a particular place over a period of time?

What is a large area of flat land with few trees?

What is a piece of land almost surrounded by water (3 sides)?

What is a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water?

What is the skills and methods used in the making of maps?

What indicates the orientation of directions on a map?

What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time?

What is a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it?

What is a large natural stream of water in a channel to sea, a lake, or another stream?

What is a large natural elevation of the earth's surface; a large steep hill?

What is a lake used to store water for community use?

What is a vast treeless Arctic region in which the subsoil is permanently frozen?

What is it called when someone/something is native to a certain area?

What is a strip of land projecting into a body of water?

What is a very large body of water?

What is a large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain?

What is a measure of distance east or west of the prime meridian?

What is a body of land surrounded completely by water?

What is an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land?

What is a long narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation?

What is an isolated flat-top0ped hill with steep sides?

What is a line of mountains connected by high ground?

What is a large body of water connected to an ocean or sea?

What is a mountain with a crater which lava can erupt from the earth's crust?

What is either of two halves of Earth?

What is an area of relatively level high ground?

What is a triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river?