Geography Terms / Vocabulary

A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.

• Valley

• Marsh

• Wetland

• Tropics

An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.

• Marsh

• Tropics

• Valley

• Arable land

Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.

• Wetland

• Tropics

• Valley

• Plateau

The warm, equatorial region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

• Tropics

• Climate

• Desert

• Hemisphere

The long-term pattern of weather in a particular area. Weather can change from hour-to-hour, day-to-day, month-to-month or even year-to-year.

• Climate

• Terrain

• Rural

• Agriculture

A natural feature of the earth's surface. (Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the four major types. Minor types include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins)

• landforms

• deserts

• urbans

• hemisphere

a geographic area; a stretch of land, especially with regard to its physical features.

• terrain

• arable land

• plains

• equator

A built-up area; a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

• urban

• rural

• plains

• plateau

An open stretch of land that has few homes or other buildings, and not very many people.

• rural

• urban

• plains

• plateau

Flat lands that have only small changes in elevation.

• plains

• plateaus

• hemispheres

• valleys