Vocabulary on Egypt
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- Equator
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a great circle of the earth or a celestial body that is everywhere equally distant from the two poles and divides the surface into the northern and southern hemispheres - longitude
- the arc or portion of the earth's equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the prime meridian and expressed either in degrees or in time
- latitude
- angular distance north or south from the earth's equator measured through 90 degrees
- isthmus
- a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
- mesa
- an isolated relatively flat-topped natural elevation usually more extensive than a butte and less extensive than a plateau; also : a broad terrace with an abrupt slope on one side
- strait
- a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water
- estuary
- a water passage where the tide meets a river current; especially : an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river
- archipelago
- a series of islands
- glacier
- a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
- piedmont
- lying or formed at the base of mountains
- fall line
- a line joining the waterfalls on numerous rivers that marks the point where each river descends from the upland to the lowland and the limit of the navigability of each river
- arroyo
- a water-carved gully or channel
- chasm
- a deep cleft in the surface of a planet
- reservoir
- an artificial lake where water is collected and kept in quantity for use
- precipice
- a very steep or overhanging place
- Cataracts
- a perpendicular or very steep descent of the water of a stream
- fjord
- a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes