Geography Jargon (6th Grade Social Studies)

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Across
  1. 4. a barren area in which soft rock is eroded into many fantastic forms.
  2. 9. group of islands
  3. 10. an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
  4. 13. a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impossible to move through.
  5. 15. a body of water forming a dent in the shoreline; larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.
  6. 16. a natural stream of flowing water.
  7. 19. a large body of fresh or salt water completely surrounded by land.
  8. 20. flat land that rises high above the surrounding area on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  9. 22. an long dent on the surface of the Earth with uplands, hills, or mountains running along its sides.
  10. 24. a narrow piece of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger pieces of land.
  11. 25. a ring-shaped coral reef with water in the center.
  12. 27. a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
  13. 29. a big piece of ice formed from snow falling over many years and moving very slowly.
  14. 30. a narrow piece of flowing water linking together two larger areas of sea.
  15. 32. a piece of land moving out into a sea or ocean that curls back in towards the land.
  16. 33. a lonely hill or mountain rising suddenly above the surrounding flatter land.
  17. 34. a high steep face of rock.
  18. 36. a piece of low wet land, often without trees, but gilled with growths of grasses, sedges, and cattails.
  19. 37. the triangular deposit of stuff where a river meets a larger body of water.
  20. 38. an small part of the world's oceans marked off by land boundaries.
  21. 39. a vast, flat, and treeless piece of land found in the Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.
Down
  1. 1. an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for a narrow piece part connecting it with the mainland.
  2. 2. a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., shoot out, either continuously or from time to time.
  3. 3. a hole in the side of a hill, mountain, etc.
  4. 5. a sand hill or sand ridge formed by the wind, usually in desert regions or near lakes and oceans.
  5. 6. a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees.
  6. 7. any part of the salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the earth's surface. (i.e. - Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Oceans, etc.)
  7. 8. land rising upwards on the earth's surface, but is smaller than a mountain.
  8. 11. a hot spring that sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
  9. 12. water falling and/or flowing over a cliff.
  10. 14. a dry area of land created by little rainfall that supports little or no plants.
  11. 17. a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it.
  12. 18. a piece of land completely surrounded by water, but not large enough to be called a continent.
  13. 21. a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
  14. 23. an area of very flat land.
  15. 26. a suddent, natural rise of the earth's surface that is higher than a hill; usually greater than 2,000 feet.
  16. 28. one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
  17. 31. a large floating piece of ice that broke off from a glacier and is carried out to sea.
  18. 34. a path between two bodies of water (usually man made).
  19. 35. a large piece of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.