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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19
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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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21
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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
to slope down
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abrupt
steep
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vallonné
hilly
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une butte
a hillock / a mound
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un sommet de colline
a hilltop
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le contrefort
the foothill
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montagneux
montainous
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une chaîne de montagnes
a mountain range
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un sommet
a mountain top
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un massif
a massif
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le sommet
the summit
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dominer
to tower over / to overlook
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la crête | une arête
the crest | a ridge
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un glacier
a glacier
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une vallée
a valley / vale (lit.)
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un plateau
a plateau
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un bassin
a basin
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une falaise
a cliff
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un ravin
a ravine {re'vi:n}
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un précipice
a precipice
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un gouffre
a chasm
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une crevasse
a crevice / fissure / split
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une corniche / saillie
a ledge
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un col
a pass
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la banquise
the ice floe / pack ice
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la terre vierge
virgin land
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une île déserte
a desert island
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le méridien de Greenwich
the Greenwich meridian
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sur terrain plat
on level ground
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terre du domaine public
public land
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une étendue de terre
a tract of land
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les points cardinaux
the points of the compass
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une rose des vents
a compass card rose
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dans le nord de Londres | ≠ au nord de Londres (à l'extérieur)
in the north of London | ≠ north of / to the north of London
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un terrain plat
a flat land
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un terrain vallonné
undulating land
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un paysage vallonné
a rolling countryside
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terrain accidenté
uneven / bumpy land
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à haute / basse altitude
at high / low altitude
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un sommet enneigé
a snow-capped summit
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s'élever brusquement
to rise steeply
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la partie émergée de l'iceberg
the tip of the iceberg