Land and Water Geography Vocabulary Terms

What is land surrounded by water on three sides?

• Cape

• Penninsula

• Bay

• Continent

What is a large stream of water that empties into another body of water?

• River

• Stream

• Bay

• Tributary

What is a large body of water that is completely surrounded by land?

• Ocean

• Bay

• River

• Lake

What is a river or stream that joins a larger one?

• Tributary

• Bay

• Isthmus

• Cape

What is a steep fall or flow of water from a high place?

• Glacier

• Mesa

• Ocean

• Waterfall

What is low areas that separate mountains and hills?

• Stream

• Plain

• Valleys

• Land

What are muddy, flat lowlands?

• Swamp

• Marsh

• Pond

• Lake

What is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly down a slope or spreads outward over a land surface?

• Glacier

• Mountain

• Hill

• Lake

What is a narrow piece of land that joins two larger pieces of land?

• Strait

• Peninsula

• Cape

• Isthmus

What is an area of mostly flat, treeless land?

• Hill

• Mesa

• Plain

• Desert