Near Water
An area of land drained by a given river and its branches; are of land surrounded by lands of higher elevation.
What is a Basin?
Wide straight or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other; deep part of a river or other waterway.
What is a Channel?
One of the seven large landmasses on the earth.
What is a continent?
The height of land above sea level.
What is Elevation?
An exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates.
What is Absolute Location?
Stretch of high land that separates river systems.
What is a Divide?
Large, thick body of slowly moving ice.
What is a Glacier?
Area of low land between hills or mountains.
What is a Valley?
Elevated land with sloping sides and rounded summit; generally smaller than a mountain.
What is a Hill?
Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees.
A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely.
What is a Harbor?
Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf.
What is a Bay?
Changes in elevation over a given area of land.
What is Relief?
What is a Canyon?
One of many lines on the global grid that circle the earth north or south of the Equator; used to measure degrees of latitude.
What is Parallel?
Flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth.
What is a Delta?
The direction in which a river or stream flows from its source to its mouth.
What is Downstream?
A narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas.
What is an Isthmus?
Steep, high wall of rock, earth, or ice.
What is a Cliff?
An imaginary line that runs around the earth halfway between the North and South Poles; used as the starting point to measure degrees of north and south latitude.
What is the Equator?
Point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a Cape?
A large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land.
What is the sea?
Characteristic of a place occurring naturally, such as a landform, body of water, climate pattern, or resource.
What is a Physical Feature?
An elevated land area such as a hill, mountain, or plateau.
What is Highland?
A line of the global grid running from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England; starting point to measuring degrees of east and west longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?