2. Geographic Pictionary 38

3. Launch: Please pick up one sheet from the grey bin and fill out the top Name Date Class PAGE – GO 4 “Geographic Pictionary”

4. ARCHIPELAGO A large group or chain of islands

5. BAY Part of a body of water that reaches into the land.

6. BUTTE An isolated hill or small plateau with steep sides usually SMALLER than a mesa

7. CANAL a long narrow section, filled with water, created by people so that boats/goods could pass through it

8. CANYON A deep, narrow valley with steep sides

9. CAPE Point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean

10. CHANNEL A deep, narrow body of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water The deeper part of a waterway

11. CLIFF Steep, high wall of rock, Earth, or ice

12. DELTA Land built up at the mouth of a river

13. DESERT A land too dry or too cold to grow plants

14. DIVIDE Stretch of high land that separates river systems

15. FjoRD A long, narrow, steep- sided inlet from the sea.

16. GLACIER A large body of slowly moving ice

17. GULF Part of a body of water that reaches into the land

18. HARBOR A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships may anchor safely

19. HILLS Raised, rounded part of the earth’s surface. Smaller than a mountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQSA dU4Qb4&feature=player_detailpage

20. ICEBERG A floating mass of ice that has broken off from a glacier

21. ISLAND Land entirely surrounded by water; smaller than a continent

22. ISTHMUS Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas

23. LAKE Body of water completely surrounded by land

24. MESA A flat-topped hill or small plateau with steep sides

25. MOUNTAIN High, rocky land usually with steep sides and a pointed or rounded top. Two types: Faulted Folded

26. FAULTED MOUNTAINS Formed by a break in the earth’s crust FOLDED MOUNTAINS Formed when tectonic plates push against each other and squeeze up the crust of the earth

27. MOUTH Place where a river empties into a larger body of water

28. OCEANS Largest bodies of water on Earth

29. PENINSULA Body of land jetting into a lake, sea, or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water

30. PLAIN A region which is mostly level, low land with gently rolling hills

31. PLATEAU a large flat area of land that is higher than other areas of land that surround it

32. RIVER Large stream of water that flows through the land

33. RIVER BASIN Land drained by a river and its branches

34. SEA A large body of water partly or surrounded/ enclosed by land

35. SOURCE The place where a river begins

36. STRAIT a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water

37. STREAM and (Creek) Stream - a natural flow of water that is smaller than a river Creek – a small stream

38. TIMBERLINE A point on a mountain above which trees cannot grow. timberline

39. TRIBUTARY A small stream of water that flows through the land feeding into a river

40. Valley Low land between hills or mountains

41. VOLCANO A mountain formed of rock thrown up from inside the earth. 4 types: extinct, dormant, intermittent, and active

42. WATERFALL a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a stream or river.

43. THE END!