Watery Places
A natural or artificial lake, usually made by damming a stream of running water
What is a Reservoir?
Land bordering the sea, a lake, or a large river
What is a Shore?
A flap topped, rocky hill with steeply sloping sides
What is a Mesa?
A piece of land nearly surrounded by water and attached to a larger area of land or the mainland by an isthmus.
What is a Peninsula?
Path of a stream where water flows swiftly over rocks
What are Rapids?
A very shallow spot in a body of water
What is a Shoal?
A fertile spot within a desert watered by underground springs or by irrigation
What is an Oasis?
A nearly level area of land usually of considerable size
What is a Plain?
An area of rolling land along the foot of a mountain range
What is a Piedmont?
An opening in the earth's surface from which flows, or has flowed, molten rock, stream, cinders, gas, and rock fragments.
What is a Volcano?
Any one, or all, of the four largest connecting bodies of salt water on the earth's surface
What is an Ocean?
The line on a mountain above which there is snow throughout they year.
What is a Snowline?
The land between hills or mountains, usually containing a stream
What is a Valley?
A body of still water, smaller than a lake
What is a Pond?
The bowl-shaped opening at the top of the volcano
What is a Crater?
The average level of the surface of the earth measured at the shoreline.
What is Sea Level?
Moving ridge of water that rises and falls.
What are Waves?
A large, level or nearly level, area of elevated land
What is a Plateau?
The pointed top of a hill or mountain ending in a point.
What is a Peak?
A level and rather narrow area of land with one steep edge bordering a river, a lake, or the sea
What is a Terrace?
A stream that flows into another stream
What is a Tributary?
Alternate rise and fall of the water level of a lake or ocean caused by gravitational pull of the moon on the earth.
What is the Tide?
A large dock from which ships may load or unload
What is a Wharf?
Land where grass and other plants grow and where cattle and sheep can graze.
What is a Pasture?
Any place where water flows in a small circle usually caused by the current of a stream striking a bank or by 2 currents meeting
What is a Whirpool?