Lakes
Rivers
Oceans/Continent
Seas
Other
100
What is a body of water surrounded by land?
A Lake
100
What is a large natural course of fresh water that flows in a channel?
A river
100
What is one of the Earth's seven huge land masses called?
A continent
100
What is another name for a very large lake?
A sea
100
What is a bowl shaped basin at the top of a volcano called?
A crater
200
What forms where rocks have built up to stop water from flowing away?
A barrier lake
200
What is a small river that flows into a larger one called?
A tributary
200
What is the large body of water separating North America and South America from Europe and Africa called?
The Atlantic Ocean
200
What is a large body of water South of Europe near Italy called?
Mediterranean Sea
200
What is a hallow in the Earth's surface where a lake forms called?
A basin.
300
What is an artificial lake that is used to collect and store water?
A reservoir.
300
What is the name of a place where a river begins?
A source
300
What is a large body of salty water east of Africa and South of Turkey?
Indian Ocean
300
What is the name of a lake which lies between Europe and Asia that is salty?
The Caspian Sea
300
What is an artificial waterway called?
A canal
400
What is a formed in a bowl shape basin but worn away by a glacier?
Erosion lake
400
What is the name for an area of land in which a river drains the rainwater?
drainage basin
400
Five famous lakes form part of the border between 2 countries. What is the name of the continent?
North America
400
Where are some of the world's largest oil deposits found?
The Caspian Sea
400
What is a steep sided valley formed by land that slips down between cracks in the Earth's surface called?
Rift Valley.
500
What is formed in a deep crack that was formed when a block of land slipped down between cracks in the Earth's surface?
Rift Valley Lake
500
What is the name of a place that a river flows into the sea?
A mouth
500
Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world is on which continent?
Asia.
500
What is a shrinking lake in Russia that went from the 4th largest to the 10th largest in about 40 years?
Aral Sea
500
What is a slowly moving mass of ice called?
A glacier.
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