The World - The Earth, Topography Flashcards

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planétaire

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planetary

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la terre (terrain)

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land

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le continent

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continent / mainland

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une lande / la lande

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a moor / the moorland

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un bois / une région boisée

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a wood / a woodland

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un marécage

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a marsh / bog / swamp

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marécageux

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boggy / marshy

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une région de marécages

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marshland

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un archipel

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an archipelago

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aride / asséché

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arid / parched

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des dunes de sable

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sand dunes

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la savane

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the savannah

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la brousse

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the bush

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un fuseau horaire

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a time zone

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l’échelle

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the scale

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ne figure sur aucune carte

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uncharted

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établir une carte

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to chart

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le relief

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relief

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une boussole

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a compass

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le plus au nord

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northernmost

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vers le nord

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northward(s)

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venant du nord

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northerly

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ascendant / descendant

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upward / downward

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une pente

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a slope

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descendre une pente

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to slope down

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abrupt

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steep

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vallonné

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hilly

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une butte

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a hillock / a mound

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un sommet de colline

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a hilltop

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le contrefort

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the foothill

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montagneux

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montainous

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une chaîne de montagnes

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a mountain range

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un sommet

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a mountain top

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un massif

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a massif

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le sommet

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the summit

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dominer

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to tower over / to overlook

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la crête

une arête

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the crest

a ridge

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un glacier

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a glacier

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une vallée

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a valley / vale (lit.)

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un plateau

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a plateau

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un bassin

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a basin

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une falaise

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a cliff

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un ravin

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a ravine {re’vi:n}

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un précipice

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a precipice

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un gouffre

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a chasm

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une crevasse

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a crevice / fissure / split

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une corniche / saillie

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a ledge

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un col

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a pass

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la banquise

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the ice floe / pack ice

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la terre vierge

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virgin land

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une île déserte

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a desert island

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le méridien de Greenwich

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the Greenwich meridian

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sur terrain plat

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on level ground

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terre du domaine public

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public land

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une étendue de terre

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a tract of land

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les points cardinaux

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the points of the compass

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une rose des vents

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a compass card rose

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dans le nord de Londres

≠ au nord de Londres (à l’extérieur)

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in the north of London

≠ north of / to the north of London

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un terrain plat

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a flat land

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un terrain vallonné

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undulating land

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un paysage vallonné

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a rolling countryside

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terrain accidenté

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uneven / bumpy land

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à haute / basse altitude

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at high / low altitude

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un sommet enneigé

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a snow-capped summit

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s’élever brusquement

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to rise steeply

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la partie émergée de l’iceberg

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the tip of the iceberg