Vocabulary Words

Question 1

Estuary

Answer 1

Wide mouth of a river where it meets the sea

Question 2

Flora

Answer 2

Plants, flowers, and trees

Question 3

Fauna

Answer 3

Animals

Question 4

Peninsula

Answer 4

A body of land surrounded by water on almost all sides, like the state of Florida

Question 5

Isthmus

Answer 5

A narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land

Question 6

Strait

Answer 6

A narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water

Question 7

Lagoon

Answer 7

A pond or shallow body of seawater enclosed by land

Question 8

Tributary

Answer 8

A river that flows into a larger river

Question 9

Delta

Answer 9

A triangular shaped area of land at the mouth of a river, like the Nile River Delta

Question 10

Hemisphere

Answer 10

One half of the earth

Question 11

Meridian

Answer 11

An imaginary line on the earth passing through the north and south poles (vertical)

Question 12

Latitude

Answer 12

Distance north or south of the equator

Question 13

Longitude

Answer 13

Distance east or west of Greenwich, England

Question 14

Arroyo

Answer 14

The bed of a stream, or a gully. It also means stream in Spanish

Question 15

Atoll

Answer 15

A circular coral reef rising above and surround a lagoon

Question 16

Archipelago

Answer 16

Group or chain of many islands

Question 17

Tropic of Cancer

Answer 17

The northern tropical area (above the equator in the northern hemisphere, our part of the world)

Question 18

Tropic of Capricorn

Answer 18

The southern tropical area (south of the equator)

Question 19

The Torrid Zone

Answer 19

Tropical areas of the world (the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer lines)

Question 20

Timberline

Answer 20

The line north of which it is so cold that trees cannot grow