Areas
Water-Related Terms
Glacial Features
Map Reference Terms
Miscellaneous
100
Places and natural conditions where plants and animals live
What is Habitat?
100
Area covered by water for all or part of a year.
What is Wetlands?
100
Giant sheets of ice.
What is Glaciers?
100
A map feature that shows the cardinal directions.
What is Compass Rose?
100
The study of the earth.
What is Geography?
200
One of the ways in which a state is divided.
What is County?
200
Living or growing in water.
What is Aquatic?
200
Area once covered by glaciers.
What is Glaciated?
200
The height of land above sea level.
What is Elevation?
200
Features of the earth’s surface.
What are Landforms?
300
A defined area of a place that has common features.
What is Region?
300
An area of land that drains into the same waterway.
What is Watershed?
300
Area never covered by glaciers.
What is Driftless Area?
300
The detailed description of the physical features of something.
What is Topography?
300
A written or printed paper that contain official information.
What is Document?
400
A nation. (synonym)
What is Country?
400
Worn away by wind and water.
What is Erosion?
400
A long hill formed in the same direction as the glaciers flowed.
What is Drumlin?
400
Lines or meridians that run from the North to the South Poles on a globe.
What is Longitude?
400
A piece of land that sticks out of a larger land mass.
What is Peninsula?
500
A measurement of land area.
What is Acre?
500
A narrow strip of land between bodies of water.
What is Isthmus?
500
Ridges or long hills that were once the edge of a glacier.
What are Moraines?
500
Lines or parallels that run from east to west around a globe.
What is Latitude?
500
The study of earth’s layers of rock and soil.
What is Geology?
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