Basic Terms
Landforms
Elevations
Change Processes
Potpourri
100
One of the seven great divisions of land on earth.
What is a continent?
100
A body of land nearly surrounded by water.
What is an island?
100
A natural elevation of earth's surface, rising high above the surrounding level.
What is a mountain?
100
A trembling of the earth's surface, caused by changes beneath the surface.
What is an earthquake?
100
The shallow portion of the seabed bordering most continents and terminating in a slope, which descends steeply into deeper water.
What is the continental shelf?
200
The level of the ocean, which is the same all over the world.
What is sea level?
200
A narrow portion of land nearly surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
A raised part of the earth's surface, smaller than a mountain.
What is a hill?
200
A mountain or hill having an opening through which molten rock, steam, and ashes are expelled from within.
What is a volcano?
200
A mountain ridge across a continent, which separates streams flowing in opposite directions.
What is a continental divide?
300
The elevation of a place above sea level.
What is altitude?
300
A point of land jutting out into the water.
What is a cape?
300
A long depression or hollow lying between hills and mountains
What is a valley?
300
A break in the earth's crust, where the land on either side has moved up, down, or sideways along the break.
What is a fault?
300
The points at which land drops sharply and rivers usually become unnavigable
What is the fall line?
400
Land adjoining a sea or ocean.
What is a coast?
400
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger portions of land.
What is an isthmus?
400
An area of mostly high, generally level land.
What is a plateau?
400
A long dry period caused by the absence of rain.
What is a drought?
400
A hollow or depression in the earth's surface, almost entirely surrounded by highlands.
What is a basin?
500
A large part of a continent that forms a section of its own.
What is a subcontinent?
500
A group of many islands.
What is an archipelago?
500
A broad area of flat or gently rolling land.
What is a plain?
500
The act of making land suitable for human use.
What is reclaiming?
500
A chain of mountains.
What is a range?
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