Geographic Vocabulary #4

Mountain created as liquid rock or ash erupts from inside earth.

• valley

• volcano

Area of low land between hills and mountains.

• valley

• upstream

Direction opposite the flow of a river; toward the source of the river or stream.

• valley

• upstream

Small river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream.

• tributary

• sound

Narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water.

• trinutary

• strait

Place where a stream or river begins.

• source

• strait

Body of water between a coastline and one or more islands off the coast.

• source

• sound

Position on land level with the surface of a nearby ocean or sea.

• sea level

• river

Land lying next to the sea or ocean.

• sea coast

• sea

Large body of water completely or partly surrounded by land.

• vocabulary

• sea