Geographical Terms

Question 1

breaker

Answer 1

a wave that breaks into foam

Question 2

brink

Answer 2

the edge of a steep place of land bordering water

Question 3

brook

Answer 3

a small natural stream of fresh water

Question 4

canal

Answer 4

an artificial waterway for navigation and irrigation

Question 5

canyon

Answer 5

a deep valley with steep sides

Question 6

cape

Answer 6

a piece of land jutting into the sea or other bodies of water

Question 7

bank

Answer 7

a broad elevation of the sea floor

Question 8

branch

Answer 8

a tributary stream of any stream that is not a river

Question 9

bog

Answer 9

wet spongy ground with soil and decaying vegetative matter

Question 10

bluff

Answer 10

a cliff or hill with a broad steep face

Question 11

beach

Answer 11

an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore

Question 12

bayou

Answer 12

a marshy arm of a lake or river

Question 13

bay

Answer 13

a body of water forming an indention of the shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

Question 14

cliff

Answer 14

a high steep rock face

Question 15

cinder cone

Answer 15

a steep conical hill of loose volcanic fragments

Question 16

chasm

Answer 16

a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earths surface gorge

Question 17

channel

Answer 17

the bed of a stream, river or other waterway

Question 18

cavern

Answer 18

a cave, one that is larger and is mostly underground

Question 19

cave

Answer 19

a hollow in the earth

Question 20

altitude

Answer 20

the height of a thing above a given planetary plane, especially above sea level on earch

Question 21

atoll

Answer 21

a ring shaped coral reef closely spaced small coral islands.

Question 22

arm

Answer 22

an inlet or cove an arm of the sea

Question 23

archipelago

Answer 23

a large chain of islands, example: Hawaii