Download Geographic Pictionary Definitions and Visuals

Geographic
Pictionary
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Launch:
• Please pick up one sheet from the grey bin
and fill out the top
• Name, Date, Class, & PAGE – GO 4
• Be prepared to answer, “What geographic
features did you observe over the
weekend?”
ARCHIPELAGO
•A large
group or
chain of
islands
BAY
• Part of a
body of
water that
reaches
into the
land.
BUTTE
• An isolated hill
or small
plateau with
steep sides
CANAL
• a long narrow
section, filled with
water, created by
people so that
boats/goods could
pass through it
CANYON
• A deep,
narrow
valley with
steep sides
CAPE
• Point of land
that extends
into a river,
lake, or ocean
CHANNEL
• A deep, narrow
body of water
connecting 2
larger bodies of
water
• The deeper part
of a waterway
CLIFF
• Steep, high wall of
rock, Earth, or ice
DELTA
• Land built
up at the
mouth of
a river
Launch:
• Please pick up a new sheet if you need
one.
• Without looking at your definition, be ready
to describe the term, “bay,” and name a
bay in our Mid-Atlantic region
• Have GO 4 on your desk, ready to work
and learn new terms!
DESERT
•A land too dry or too
cold to grow many
plants
DIVIDE
• Stretch of
high land
that
separates
river
systems
FjoRD
•A long, narrow, steepsided inlet from the
sea.
GLACIER
•A large
body of
slowly
moving
ice
GULF
• Part of a
body of
water that
reaches
into the
land
HARBOR
• A sheltered place
along a shoreline
where ships may
anchor safely
HILLS
• Raised,
rounded part of
the earth’s
surface.
• Smaller than a
mountain
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ICEBERG
• A floating
mass of ice
that has
broken off
from a
glacier
ISLAND
• Land entirely surrounded by
water; smaller than a
continent
ISTHMUS
• Narrow stretch of land connecting two
larger land areas
LAKE
• Body of
water
completely
surrounded
by land
MESA
• A flat-topped hill or small
plateau with steep sides
MOUNTAIN
• High, rocky land
usually with
steep sides and
a pointed or
rounded top.
• Two types:
Faulted
Folded
FAULTED MOUNTAINS
•Formed by a break in
the earth’s crust
FOLDED MOUNTAINS
•Formed when tectonic plates
push against each other and
squeeze up the crust of the earth
HOME MISSION:
•Study GO 4 –
Mini Quiz on
th
Friday, Sept 9
MOUTH
• Place where
a river
empties into
a larger
body of
water
OCEANS
• Largest
bodies of
water on
Earth
PENINSULA
• Body of land jetting
into a lake, sea, or
ocean, surrounded
on three sides by
water
PLAIN
• A region which is mostly
level, low land with gently
rolling hills
PLATEAU
• a large flat area of land that
is higher than other areas of
land that surround it
RIVER
• Large stream of water that
flows through the land
RIVER BASIN
•Land drained
by a river and
its branches
SEA
• A large body
of water
partly or
surrounded/
enclosed by
land
SOURCE
•The place where a
river begins
STRAIT
• a narrow
passage of
water
connecting two
seas or two
large areas of
water
STREAM and (Creek)
• Stream - a natural
flow of water that is
smaller than a river
• Creek – a small
stream
TIMBERLINE
• A point on a
mountain
above which
trees cannot
grow.
timberline
TRIBUTARY
• A small stream of water
that flows through the
land feeding into a river
Valley
• Low land
between
hills or
mountains
VOLCANO
• A mountain
formed of rock
thrown up from
inside the earth.
• 4 types:
extinct, dormant,
intermittent, and
active
WATERFALL
• a place where
water flows over a
vertical drop in the
course of a stream
or river.
Key Terms to Star, Circle,
Highlight, etc.
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Bay
Cliff
Desert
Island
Lake
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Mountain
Ocean
Plain
River
Waterfall
THE
END!