Geography Terms

By:Casey

ValleyA valley a stretch of low land lying between hills or mountains and usually having a river or stream flowing through it.

Glacier

A glacier is a slowly-moving river of snow and ice.

Waterfall

A waterfall is water thundering over high cliff faces with enough force to pound the local geography into new shapes and forms.

It’s the steep descent of the water of a river.

Tributary

A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.

Gulf

A portion of an ocean or sea

partly enclosed by land.

• An isolated area of vegetation in a desert,

typically surrounding a spring or similar water source. Oases also provide habitat for animals and even humans if the area is big enough.

Oasis

Canyon• A canyon is a deep valley with very steep sides -

often carved from the Earth by a river.

Fjord• A coastal valley which was sculpted by glacial

action.

Lagoon

A lagoon is a small, shallow

body of water between a

barrier island or a coral reef

and the mainland, also a

small body of water

surrounded by an island.

• A sea is a division of an ocean or a large body of

salt water partially enclosed by land.

SEA

• A sound is a wide inlet of the sea or ocean that is

parallel to the coastline; it often separates a coastline from a nearby island.

Sound

Geyser

A geyser is an eruptive

spring from which hot water

and (or) steam and in some

cases mud are periodically

thrown.

Aquifer• In hydrologic terms, permeable layers of

underground rock, or sand that hold or broadcast groundwater below the water table that will yield water to a well in sufficient quantities to produce water for beneficial use.

Channel• A channel is a passage for water (or other fluids)

to flow through.

Suburban• Something that is suburban is located or residing

in a suburb.• (A suburb is a residential district on the outskirts

of a city or town.)

Suburban

•An archipelago is a group of many islands in a large body of water.

Archipelago

• A taiga is he open northern part of the boreal

forest. It consists of open woodland of coniferous trees growing in a rich floor of lichen, and is generally cold and swampy.

Taiga

• The pointed summit of a mountain is called the

peak.

Peak

Plateau

• A plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.

Strait

• A strait a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

Marsh

• A marsh is a low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.

Chaparral

• A dense, impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees.

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