Water
Part of a lake or sea that is partly surrounded by the shore land.
What is a bay?
A layer of water-bearing rock through which groundwater moves.
What is aquifer?
A count of the population of a country, usually conducted by the government. It records the number of people and data such as age, gender, and occupation. It can also be taken of plant or animal life.
What is a census?
Very dry area of land that receives ten inches or less of precipitation a year. They are found on every continent and cover about one-third of the earth's land area.
What is a desert?
A group of islands
What is archipelago?
Developed in the United States buy seismologists Charles F. Richter and Beno Gutenbert, it is used to indicate the amount of energy released at the focus of an earthquake.
What is a Richter scale?
A wide strait or waterway between two land masses that lie close to each other.
What is a channel?
A coral reef in the open ocean that appears as a low, ringshaped island or ring of islets.
What is an atoll?
One of the three main layers of the earth. This is the inner layer of hot rock.
What is the core?
Tall, steep-sided towers of rock. Smaller than a mesa.
What is a butte?
A large, moving body of fresh water that starts at a source in higher land. It drains the water from an area called a basin. This moves from the higher to the lower land and carries the water to its mouth, where it ends. That mouth is typically at a lake, ocean, sea, or another river.
What is a river?
Land made by soil that drops from a river at its mouth, the place where it meets the sea.
What is the delta?
A huge mass of ice that moves slowly overt land.
What is a glacier?
One of the three main layers of the earth. This is the outer layer of hot rock.
What is the Crust?
The boundary between two air masses of different temperature and humidity. There are three basic types of these: warm, cold and stationary.
What is a front?
A deep, narrow valley having high, steep sides or cliffs.
What is a canyon?
A moist, densely wooded area usually found in a warm, tropical wet climate.
What is a rain forest?
The high land that separates two river basins. A river drains the water from the land, and that land is its basin.
What is a divide?
A steep slope or cliff.
What is an escarpment?
Contraction of "ecological system", a term used in classifying the earth's natural communities according to how living and non-living things and their environment function as a unit.
What is an ecosystem?
A region where grass is the naturally dominant vegetation. It occurs where there is not enough regular rainfall to support the growth of a forest, but not so little rain as to form a desert.
What is a grassland?
Land along the sea.
What is a coast?
The material that makes up most of the earth. This is a natural substance composed of solid matter. They are divided into there categories according to how they were formed; igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic.
What is rock?
The distance above sea level.
What is elevation?
The natural environment of a plant or animal - the place where the plant commonly grows or the animal normally finds food and shelter.
What is a habitat?
Water beneath the earth's surface from rain and melted snow that seeped down through soil and into pores and cracks in rocks.
What is groundwater?
A deep, narrow inlet of the sea between high, steep cliffs.
What is a fjord?
A large area of land where many trees grow. This gets much rainfall every year.
What is a forest?
A tropical grassland with clumps of grasses and widely scattered trees found in warm, tropical regions where rainfall is seasonal; a prolonged dry season alternates with a rainy season.
What is a savanna?
A broadened seaward end of a river. Most of these contain a mixture of fresh water from the river and salt water from the ocean.
What is an estuary?
A large are of the ocean or sea that lies within a curved coastline. It is a portion of the ocean that penetrates into land. These vary in size, shape, and depth. They are sometimes connected to the ocean by one or more narrow passages called straits.
What is a gulf?
A sheltered body of water where ships anchor and are safe from the winds and waves of storms at sea.
What is a harbor?
A hot spring through which jets of water and steam erupt.
What is a geyser?
A small area of land that is higher than the land around it.
What is a hill?
A large body of salt water nearly or partly surrounded by land. It is much smaller than an ocean.
What is a sea?
This is a small strip of water that reaches from a sea or lake into the shore land.
What is an inlet?
This is a narrow piece of land that joins two larger areas and separates two bodies of water.
What is an isthmus?
This is a pool of shallow water linked to the sea by an inlet.
What is a lagoon?
This is a body of water, usually fresh water, that is surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
Land that is surrounded by water and smaller than a continent. There are four major kinds of these: continental, oceanic, coral and barrier.
What is an island?
A type of matter that water, ice, and wind transport and deposit. It is made up of particles of rocks and minerals that are smaller than fine sand.
What is silt?
This is a type of wetland forming a grassy fringe near river mouths, and along coastlines protected from open ocean. They are alternately flooded and exposed by the movement of the tides.
What is a marsh?
This is the distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
This is molten rock inside the earth. It orginates in the lower part of the earth's crust and in the upper portion of the mantle.
What is the magma?
This is the distance east or west of the prime meridien. Lines of these, which meet at the Poles, are known as meridiens. The one that runs through Greenwich, England is accepted as the 0 degree ___, or Prime Meridien.
What is longitude?
This is one of the three main layers of the earth. The middle layer of hot rock, the ____, is sandwiched between the inner layer, called the core, and the outer layer, called the crust
What is the mantle?
A long and wide body of water. It connects two larger bodies of water or separates an island from a larger body of land.
What is a sound?
This is a broad, flat-topped landform with steep sides, found mostly in dry regions.
What is a mesa?
Land that rises very high, much higher than the land at its base. These are much higher than hills.
What is a mountain?
A row of mountains that are joined together. A mountain range makes a giant natural wall.
What is a mountain range?
An area made fertile by a source of fresh water in an otherwise arid region. Water in an —-- comes from underground springs or from irrigation.
What is an oasis?
A three-sided piece of land jutting out into a lake or ocean.
What is a peninsula?
A passageway of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Permanently frozen layer below the earth’s surface consisting of soil, gravel, and sand usually bound together by ice.
What is permafrost?
A large, relatively flat land, often covered with grasses.
What is a plain?
A large, relatively flat area that stands above the surrounding land. These occupy about one-third of the earth’s land and occur on every continent.
What is a plateau?
A term that covers all forms in which water falls to earth from the atmosphere. The main types of this are rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation?
The line 0 degrees longitude, the starting point for measuring the distance east and west around the globe. It runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
An area of and permanently saturated with water and sometimes covered by it. Typically dominated by trees.
What is a swamp?
The lay of the land - shape of the surface features of geographic area.
What is topography?
A forest of the cold, subarctic regions that begins south of the tundra vegetation. Coniferous, or cone-bearing trees, such as spruce, pine, fir, are common there.
What is a taiga?
A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
Ocean waves triggered primarily by movement of the ocean floor during strong earthquakes. Volcanic eruptions in or near the ocean may also cause them.
What is a tsunami?
A cold region characterized by low vegetation. Plant species are limited in number and are adapted to short growing seasons and cold temperatures. There are two kinds of these – the alpine one of high mountain ranges and the Arctic one of the polar area.
What is a tundra?
The lower land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?