Physical Features Jeopardy Amanda Warkow Mr. Beilin Soc. Stu. 12/1/11 Physical Features Jeopardy

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Required-100 a large group or chain of islands

Answer-100 What is an archipelago?

Required-200 Body of water partly surronded by land and partly open to a larger body of water

Answer-200 What is a bay?

Required-300 piece of land jutting into the sea or some other large body of water.

Answer-300 What is a cape?

Required-400 A passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water

Answer-400 What is a channel?

Required-500 Large landmass surronded by water

Answer-500 What is a continent?

Required-600 Extensive ridge or mound in the sea that consists of the outer skeletons of tiny sea animals

Answer-600 What is a coral reef?

Required-700 Vast accumulation of sediment at the mouth of a river

Answer-700 What is a delta?

Required-100 Dry region receiving little rain or snow and with little or no vegetation

Answer-100 What is a desert?

Required-200 Large body of ice formed from long lasting accumulation of snow on mountains and in polar regions

Answer-200 What is a glacier?

Required-300 Area of an ocean partly surronded by land

Answer-300 What is a gulf?

Required-400 An area of land surronded by water and smaller than a continent

Answer-400 What is an island?

Required-500 Narrow body of land connecting a continent with a peninsula or other continent

Answer-500 What is an isthmus

Required-600 A large inland body of standing water

Answer-600 What is a lake?

Required-700 the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks

Answer-700 What is a mountain pass?

Required-100 The place where a stream enters a larger body of water

Answer-100 What is the mouth of a river?

Required-200 A fertile water source in a desert

Answer-200 What is an oasis?

Required-300 Are of land that is almost surronded by water

Answer-300 What is a peninsula?

Required-400 Broad area of land that is gently rolling or almost flat

Answer-400 What is a plain?

Required-500 A broad flat area of high land

Answer-500 What is a plateau?

Required-600 a natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use

Answer-600 What is a reservoir?

Required-700 an extensive plain, especially one without trees

Answer-700 What is a steppes?

Required/Challenge-100 a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.

Answer-100 What is a strait?

Required/Challenge-200 the highest point or part of a mountain

Answer-200 What is a summit?

Required/Challenge-300 one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions

Answer-300 What is a tundra?

Required/Challenge-400 an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.

Answer-400 What is a valley?

Required/Challenge-500 a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled,

Answer-500 What is a volcano?

Required/Challenge-600 a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon.

Answer-600 What is an atoll?

Required/Challenge-700 a natural or artificial hollow place containing water.

Answer-700 What is a basin?

Challenge-100 an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.

Answer-100 What is a butte?

Challenge-200 a deep valley with steep sides, often with a stream flowing through it.

Answer-200 What is a canyon?

Challenge-300 a chain of mountains,

Answer-300 What is a cordillera?

Challenge-400 a plain extending along a coast.

Answer-400 What is a coastal plain?

Challenge-500 the part of a continent that is submerged in relatively shallow sea

Answer-500 What is a continental shelf?

Challenge-600 a stream or channel in a coastal marsh.

Answer-600 What is a creek?

Challenge-700 the line or zone of higher ground between two adjacent streams or drainage basins.

Answer-700 What is a divide?

Challenge-100 a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.

Answer-100 What is a fjord?

Challenge-200 nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.

Answer-200 What is flood plain?

Challenge-300 a low hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.

Answer-300 What is foothills?

Challenge-400 such a body of water having docks or port facilities.

Answer-400 What is a harbor?

Challenge-500 an elevated region

Answer-500 What is an highland?

Challenge-600 a thick cover of ice over an area, sloping in all directions from the center.

Answer-600 What is a ice cap?

Challenge-700 an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes

Answer-700 What is a lagoon?

Challenge-100 land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.

Answer-100 What is lowland?

Challenge-200 a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

Answer-200 What is a mesa?

Challenge-300 frozen subsoil

Answer-300 What is permafrost?

Challenge-400 grassland region with scattered trees, grading into either open plain or woodland, usually in subtropical or tropical regions.

Answer-400 What is a savanna?

Challenge-500 the place from which the water in the river or stream originates.

Answer-500 What is a source of a river?

Challenge-600 a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.

Answer-600 What is a tributary?

Good luck on the test! 