Geography Terms

3. A treeless plain characteristic of the Arctic and subarctic regions.
6. The process of interaction and integration among people, companies, governments, and cultures across the world.
8. A landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake, or river with a loose surface of sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, shells, stones, or coral.
10. A small, intermittent stream that is larger than a brook but smaller than a river. The term is used primarily in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
11. A picture of a place that is usually drawn to scale on a flat surface.
13. An artificial lake or an artificially enlarged natural lake that is used to store water.
14. Any vertical or nearly vertical rock exposure, usually formed by the processes of weathering and erosion.

1. A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem or a lake, rather than directly into a sea or ocean
2. Any narrow, elongated protrusion of a larger territory, either physical or political, such as a state.
4. Any piece of sub-continental land that is entirely surrounded by water; or more generally, any isolated habitat that is surrounded by a different habitat, including different types of land.
5. Any landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.
7. A body of water localized in a basin and surrounded entirely by land.
8. A coastal body of water that is directly connected to but recessed from a larger body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake.
9. An instrument used for navigation and orientation that indicates direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions
10. A region identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.
12. Concerning all parts of the world (i.e. worldwide); affecting or distributed across the whole of the Earth, or relating to a globe or sphere; spherical.