6th Grade Atlas Terms

a group of islands

• archipelago

• basin

area of land drained by a given river, or an area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevations

• basin

• delta

body of water that extends into a shoreline, smaller than a gulf

• canyon

• bay

deep and narrow valley with steep walls

• canyon

• channel

wide strait or waterway between two land masses

• divide

• channel

steep, high wall fo rock, earth, or ice

• cliff

• lowland

one of the 7 large land masses on the Earth

• continent

• peninsula

flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream

• isthmus

• delta

stretch of high land that separates river systems

• divide

• lake

direction that a river or stream flows

• lowland

• downstream