Land Features
A small but visible rise in land elevation with slopes on all sides.
What is a hill?
Rivers that feed other rivers.
What are Tributaries?
The two main branches of Geography.
This area of the earth receives more sunlight than land near the poles.
What is the equator?
Lines that separate colors on a relief map.
What are contour lines?
A narrow, deep gash in the earth with steep sides; gorge.
What is a Canyon?
The longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi?
The two ways to study Geography.
What are Regional and Systematic?
The earth is tilted by this many degrees.
What is 23 1/2?
This term refers to the height and depth of land features.
What is relief?
A hill with a large, flat top and steep sides.
What is a Mesa?
Discharge
What is the volume of water flowing out of a river?
The formal name for mapmaking.
What is cartography?
The direct rays of the sun never shine north of this line of latitude.
What is the tropic of Cancer?
This term literally means 'rock ball'.
What is Lithosphere?
A long, wide river mouth that rises and falls with tides.
What is an Estuary?
The total land area drained by the main river and its tributaries.
What is the Drainage Basin?
Detailed land features on a map, including their heights.
What is topography?
The direct rays of the sun never shine below this line of latitude.
What is the tropic of Capricorn?
The three divisions of the earth.
What are atmosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere?
A narrow waterway joining two larger bodies of water.
What is a Strait?
Arms of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
What are Seas?
The first great Geographer.
Who is Eratosthenes?
These are the three distinct latitude zones.
What are Polar Region, Temperate Zone, and Tropics?
A sheltered body of deep water next to the shore.
What is a harbor?