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Geographic Pictionary

Geographic Pictionary. 38. 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.

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Geographic Pictionary

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  1. Geographic Pictionary 38

  2. 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?”

  3. ARCHIPELAGO • A large group or chain of islands

  4. BAY • Part of a body of water that reaches into the land.

  5. BUTTE • An isolated hill or small plateau with steep sides

  6. CANAL • a long narrow section, filled with water, created by people so that boats/goods could pass through it

  7. CANYON • A deep, narrow valley with steep sides

  8. CAPE • Point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean

  9. CHANNEL • A deep, narrow body of water connecting 2 larger bodies of water • The deeper part of a waterway

  10. CLIFF • Steep, high wall of rock, Earth, or ice

  11. DELTA • Land built up at the mouth of a river

  12. 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!

  13. DESERT • A land too dry or too cold to grow many plants

  14. DIVIDE • Stretch of high land that separates river systems

  15. FjoRD • A long, narrow, steep-sided inlet from the sea.

  16. GLACIER • A large body of slowly moving ice

  17. GULF • Part of a body of water that reaches into the land

  18. HARBOR • A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships may anchor safely

  19. HILLS • Raised, rounded part of the earth’s surface. • Smaller than a mountain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbQSAdU4Qb4&feature=player_detailpage

  20. ICEBERG • A floating mass of ice that has broken off from a glacier

  21. ISLAND • Land entirely surrounded by water; smaller than a continent

  22. ISTHMUS • Narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas

  23. LAKE • Body of water completely surrounded by land

  24. MESA • A flat-topped hill or small plateau with steep sides

  25. MOUNTAIN • High, rocky land usually with steep sides and a pointed or rounded top. • Two types: Faulted Folded

  26. 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

  27. HOME MISSION: • Study GO 4 – Mini Quiz on Friday, Sept 9th

  28. MOUTH • Place where a river empties into a larger body of water

  29. OCEANS • Largest bodies of water on Earth

  30. PENINSULA • Body of land jetting into a lake, sea, or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water

  31. PLAIN • A region which is mostly level, low land with gently rolling hills

  32. PLATEAU • a large flat area of land that is higher than other areas of land that surround it

  33. RIVER • Large stream of water that flows through the land

  34. RIVER BASIN • Land drained by a river and its branches

  35. SEA • A large body of water partly or surrounded/enclosed by land

  36. SOURCE • The place where a river begins

  37. STRAIT • a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water

  38. STREAM and (Creek) • Stream - a natural flow of water that is smaller than a river • Creek – a small stream

  39. TIMBERLINE • A point on a mountain above which trees cannot grow. timberline

  40. TRIBUTARY • A small stream of water that flows through the land feeding into a river

  41. Valley • Low land between hills or mountains

  42. VOLCANO • A mountain formed of rock thrown up from inside the earth. • 4 types: extinct, dormant, intermittent, and active

  43. WATERFALL • a place where water flows over a vertical drop in the course of a stream or river.

  44. Key Terms to Star, Circle, Highlight, etc. • Bay • Cliff • Desert • Island • Lake • Mountain • Ocean • Plain • River • Waterfall

  45. THE END!

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