Geographic Pictionary 38 Launch Please pick up one

Geographic Pictionary 38

Launch: • Please pick up one sheet from the grey bin and fill out the top • Name, Date, Class, & PAGE – GO 4 • Be prepared to answer, “What geographic features did you observe over the weekend? ”

ARCHIPELAGO • A large group or chain of islands

BAY • Part of a body of water that reaches into the land.

BUTTE • An isolated hill or small plateau with steep sides

CANAL • a long narrow section, filled with water, created by people so that boats/goods could pass through it

CANYON • A deep, narrow valley with steep sides

CAPE • Point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean

CHANNEL • A deep, narrow body of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water • The deeper part of a waterway

CLIFF • Steep, high wall of rock, Earth, or ice

DELTA • Land built up at the mouth of a river

Launch: • Please pick up a new sheet if you need one. • Without looking at your definition, be ready to describe the term, “bay, ” and name a bay in our Mid-Atlantic region • Have GO 4 on your desk, ready to work and learn new terms!

DESERT • A land too dry or too cold to grow many plants

DIVIDE • Stretch of high land that separates river systems

Fjo. RD • A long, narrow, steepsided inlet from the sea.

GLACIER • A large body of slowly moving ice

GULF • Part of a body of water that reaches into the land

HARBOR • A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships may anchor safely

HILLS • Raised, rounded part of the earth’s surface. • Smaller than a mountain https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=wb. QSA d. U 4 Qb 4&feature=player_detailpage

ICEBERG • A floating mass of ice that has broken off from a glacier

ISLAND • Land entirely surrounded by water; smaller than a continent

ISTHMUS • Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas

LAKE • Body of water completely surrounded by land

MESA • A flat-topped hill or small plateau with steep sides

MOUNTAIN • High, rocky land usually with steep sides and a pointed or rounded top. • Two types: Faulted Folded

FAULTED MOUNTAINS • Formed by a break in the earth’s crust FOLDED MOUNTAINS • Formed when tectonic plates push against each other and squeeze up the crust of the earth

HOME MISSION: • Study GO 4 – Mini Quiz on th Friday, Sept 9

MOUTH • Place where a river empties into a larger body of water

OCEANS • Largest bodies of water on Earth

PENINSULA • Body of land jetting into a lake, sea, or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water

PLAIN • A region which is mostly level, low land with gently rolling hills

PLATEAU • a large flat area of land that is higher than other areas of land that surround it

RIVER • Large stream of water that flows through the land

RIVER BASIN • Land drained by a river and its branches

SEA • A large body of water partly or surrounded/ enclosed by land

SOURCE • The place where a river begins

STRAIT • a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water

STREAM and (Creek) • Stream - a natural flow of water that is smaller than a river • Creek – a small stream

TIMBERLINE • A point on a mountain above which trees cannot grow. timberline

TRIBUTARY • A small stream of water that flows through the land feeding into a river

Valley • Low land between hills or mountains

VOLCANO • A mountain formed of rock thrown up from inside the earth. • 4 types: extinct, dormant, intermittent, and active

WATERFALL • a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a stream or river.

Key Terms to Star, Circle, Highlight, etc. • • • Bay Cliff Desert Island Lake • • • Mountain Ocean Plain River Waterfall

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