Geography Flashcards
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The broad mouth of the river into which the tide flows
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Estuary
1
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- The level below which the ground is saturated with water
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Water table
2
Q
Body of either fresh or salt water very large surrounded by land
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Lake
3
Q
Part of the course of a river when water rushes over rocks
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Rapiads
4
Q
Floating mass of ice separated from the glacier
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Ice berg
5
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The flow of a stream f water found in both stream and ocean
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Current
6
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Narrow waterway connecting two large bodies of water
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Strait
7
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The part of a river that empties into either sea or other river
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Mouth
8
Q
Narrow inlet of sea steep sides of glaciated valley
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Fjord
9
Q
River that flows into larger river
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Tributary
10
Q
- Four large bodies on earth
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Ocean
11
Q
Portion of sea that extends into land
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Gulf
12
Q
Body of water encircled by coral reef
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Lagoon
13
Q
Rising and falling of ocean
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Tides
14
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Riverbank higher than surrounding land
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Levee
