Geography Terms
Across
- 3. a point of land projecting into a body of water
- 5. a long,steep-sided,glacial valley that is now filled with water
- 7. a triangular section of land built up at a river's mouth
- 10. a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
- 12. the deeper part of a river or harbor
- 13. a narrow waterway or channel connecting two larger bodies of water
- 15. an inland grassland area
- 16. a deep, narrow valley with high,steep walls
- 17. land that rises above surrounding land with steep slopes and a peak or summit
- 20. a flat landmass higher than the surrounding land with at least one steep side
- 21. a natural hot spring that emits a column of water and steam into the air
- 22. a stream of water at a considerable volume
Down
- 1. a hill that rises abruptly from surrounding area with sloping sides and a flat top
- 2. an area of a sea or ocean partially enclosed by land, larger that a bay
- 3. an artificial gateway used for irrigation and traveling
- 4. a steep decent of water from a height
- 6. densely overgrown land with tropical vegetation
- 8. a river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream
- 9. a narrow piece of land that connects two large landmasses and separates two bodies of water
- 11. a group of closely scattered islands
- 13. a long,wide body of water surrounded almost entirely by land
- 14. flat-topped,elevated landforms
- 17. an are of low-lying,wet land
- 18. large trunks of ice that break off of glaciers
- 19. vast treeless plains with permafrost and small,low plants