Tropic of Cancer
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- a large body of salt water. The earth contains four that together cover 75% of our planet's surface
- ocean
- a chain or set of islands grouped together
- archipelago
- a book of maps
- atlas
- one of the seven very large land masses of the world
- continent
- an independent political entity, also known as a state
- country
- dry land that receives very little rainfall and has little vegetation
- desert
- the study of the earth, with the mountains, bodies of water, countries, and people
- geography
- the study of the earth's crust, strata, and especially rocks
- geology
- part of an ocean or sea that extends into a land mass
- gulf
- a body of land surrounded on all sides by water
- island
- narrow neck of land connecting two larger land areas
- isthmus
- imaginary circle around the Earth, passing through the poles and cutting the equator at right angles
- meridian
- a portion of land surrounded on three sides by water
- peninsula
- a tract of grassland
- prairie
- wet, spongy land with abundant plant life
- swamp