Geography Vocabulary

What is this a picture of?

• Gulf
• Delta
• Plateau
• Canyon

What do you call a narrow stretch of land that connects two larger land areas?

• Continent
• Strait
• Isthmus
• Peninsula

Earth is divided into ________ continents.

• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7

What imaginary line runs around the earth halfway between the North and South Poles?

• Prime Meridian
• Tropic of Cancer
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Equator

A _______ is flat low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth.

• Delta
• Seacoast
• Cape
• Valley

This is a picture of an __________.

• Continent
• Island
• Peninsula
• Lake

What do you call the place where a river begins?

• Source
• Beginning
• Starting Place
• Sound

What do you call an area off low land between mountains or hills?

• Cliff
• Plateau
• Highland
• Valley

Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline is called a ________.

• Peninsula
• Cape
• Basin
• Gulf

The Prime Meridian runs through ______________.

• Greenwich, France
• Greenwitch, England
• Greenwich, England
• Greengrass, Spain