Geography Vocabulary

2. / a large body of water that extends into a shoreline
4. / area of level land at a low elevation that is usually covered with grass
6. / a small land area completely surrounded by water
8. / a series of connected mountains are called this
10. / an area of land that is surrounded by lands of higher elevations (Often creates a bowl shape).
13. / the position on land that is level with the surface of a nearby ocean or sea
15. / a large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land
18. / used as a way of measuring distances east and west
19. / the lines on a global grid that measure degrees of longitude
21. / the measurement of the height of land above sea level
22. / a waterway between two land masses
23. / the four bodies of salt water that surrounds a continent
24. / a body of land that is surrounded on three sides by water
25. / the seven large land masses on the earth
26. / mountain created from liquid rock or ash
28. / a large inland body of water

1. / elevated land with sloping sides and rounded summits
3. / used as a way of measuring distances north and south
4. / the lines on a global grid that measure degrees of latitude
5. / a landform created from soil being carried downstream and deposited at its mouth
7. / a stretch of high land that separates the river systems of a continent
9. / the imaginary line halfway between the North and South Poles
11. / a narrow body of water joining two larger bodies of water
12. / the starting point for measuring distances east and west
13. / the land that lies directly next to the ocean or sea
14. / an area of low land between hills or mountains
16. / the changes in elevation over a given area of land
17. / land with steep sides that rises sharply from the surrounding land
20. / a deep and narrow valley with steep walls
25. / a stream of water moving in a definite directions through an ocean or other body of water
27. / A point of land that extends into a river, lake or ocean