World Geography Terms
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- Seven large land masses
- continent
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land surrounded on three sides by water
example: Florida - peninsula
- narrow neck of land connecting two larger land areas
- isthmus
- book of maps
- Atlas
- a chain of islands grouped together
- archipelago
- half of the earth's surface
- hemisphere
- fairly flat area of treeless country
- plains
- land mass that is highter than a hill
- mountain
- dry land that receives very little rainfall
- desert
- large, flat-topped landform found in western U.S. The word is Spanish for "table."
- mesa
- study of the earth's crust, strata and rocks
- geology
- body of land surrounded on all sides by water
- island
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a deep valley with high, steep slopes
Hint: There is a grand one in the U.S. - canyon
- imaginary circle around the Earth, passing through the poles
- Prime Meridian