1. Geography Terms
                       
                           

2. Archipelago: a string or chain of islands

3. Bay: a small body of water partially surrounded by land

4. Butte: a visible hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top (Similar to but smaller than a plateau, mesa and table)

5. Canal: a man-made waterway for boats or for draining or irrigating land

6. Canyon: a deep valley or crevice in the earth’s surface, with very steep sides and usually with a river running through it
Also known as gorges; ravines are similar, but not as deep

7. Cape: a point of land that extends into the sea or into a lake

8. The Nile Delta– northern Egypt
Delta: a triangular, fertile area of land around the mouth of a large river
The Nile Delta– northern Egypt

9. Fjord: a narrow, winding ocean inlet with steep cliff-like sides (carved out by a glacier)

10. Glacier: a huge sheet of snow or ice moving slowly down a slope (mountain) or valley

11. What’s the difference between a GLACIER and an ICEBERG?
A glacier is a river of ice, mostly on land. It is fed by snowfields in the mountains and flows down a valley, like a very slow moving river, until it meets with the sea or a lake.
An iceberg is a large piece of ice floating in water. It may have broken off a glacier.

12. Geyser: a spring from which boiling water and steam gushes into the air in intervals

13. Gulf: a large portion of the ocean, partially surrounded by land

14. Island: a body of land completely surrounded by water

15. Isthmus: a narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land
The Isthmus of Panama

16. Jungle: land densely covered with trees, vines, etc
Jungle: land densely covered with trees, vines, etc. (typically found in the tropics)

17. Lagoon: a body of shallow sea or salt water that is separated from a larger sea by some barrier (sand, rock, reef, etc.)

18. Lake: a large inland body of standing water (usually freshwater)
Lake Michigan
Lake Winnipesaukee

19. Mesa: a tall, flat-topped mountain with steep, vertical sides (usually found in dry places)
Buttes are small mesas

20. Ocean: a large body of salt water
Pacific
                           
Atlantic

21. Peninsula: a long piece of land surrounded by water on three sides

22. Plain: a large, flat, and mostly treeless area of land
The Great Plains

23. River: a natural stream of water larger than a brook or creek (typically flowing into an ocean or lake)
Mississippi River
Merrimack River

24. Sound: a wide channel linking two larger bodies of water or separating an island from the mainland

25. Swamp: wet, spongy land often partly covered with water

26. Tundra: a vast, treeless arctic plain

27. Volcano: an opening in the Earth’s surface that forms when lava, gases, and rocks erupt, or burst out, from deep inside the Earth
Mt. Saint Helens