geography Flashcards

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1
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une arête (montagne)

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a ridge

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le sommet

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the summit

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la crête

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the crest

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4
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un pic

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a peak

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5
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un glacier

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a glacier

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une vallée

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a valley, a vale

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7
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un vallon

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a dale

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8
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un creux

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a hollow

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9
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une falaise

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a cliff

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10
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un gouffre

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a chasm (prononcé kazeum)

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un col

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a pass

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une pente, descendre une pente

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a slope, to slope down

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13
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en altitude

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at high altitude (contraire at low altitude)

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14
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snow-capped

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couronné de neige

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15
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abrupte, escarpé

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steep, precipitous

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16
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pente douce

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gentle slope

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17
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s’élever en pente abrupte

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to rise (rose, risen) steeply

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18
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le fond de la mer

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the sea bed

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19
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le niveau de la mer

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the sea level

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20
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le rivage

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the (sea)shore

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21
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le bord de mer

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the seaside

22
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la marée

A

the tide

23
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les vagues déferlantes

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the surf

24
Q

la houle

A

the swell

25
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une lame de fond

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a groundswell

26
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le ressac

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the backwash (of a wave)

27
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les embruns

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spray

28
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l’écume

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foam

29
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les moutons (sur la mer)

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white horses

30
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une baie

A

a bay

31
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un golfe

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a gulf

32
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une anse, une crique

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a cove
an inlet
a creek (UK) (USA un ruisseau)

33
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un détroit

A

a strait

straits

34
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un chenal

A

a channel

35
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la côte

A

the coast

36
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côtier

A

coastal

37
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un banc de sable

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a sandbank

38
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les galets

A

pebbles

shingle

39
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un récif

A

a reef

40
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un lagon

A

a lagoon

41
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la pleine mer

A

the open sea

42
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un bras de mer

A

an arm of the sea

43
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un mille marin

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a sea mile

44
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mer étale

A

slack sea

45
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la mer est d’huile

A

the sea is like glass

46
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agitée

A

rough

47
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houleuse

A

choppy

48
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sur le rivage

A

by the seashore

49
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au bord de la mer

A

by/atthe seaside

50
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au dessus/au dessous du niveau de la mer

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above/below sea level