World Geography Vocab Review

A group of islands clustered closely together

• vacation

• archipelago

• peninsula

• reef

area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation

• reef

• hill

• plateau

• delta

narrow stretch of land connecting two larger land areas

• delta

• mouth

• strait

• isthmus

small river or stream that flows into a large river or stream

• sound

• source

• tributary

• mouth

land with steep sides that rises sharply (1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land

• hill

• plateau

• mesa

• mountain

one of the seven large landmasses on the Earth

• sea

• continent

• Pangea

• Eurasia

body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water

• isthmus

• plateau

• strait

• peninsula

place where a river or stream flows into a larger body of water

• mouth

• source

• tributary

• island

area of low land usually between hills or mountains

• cape

• sound

• valley

• highland

flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth

• mouth

• delta

• river

• valley