debate blue book terms semester 1

a small canyon

• estuary

• cape

• atoll

• gorge

a small indentation or recess in the shoreline of a sea, lake, or river

• Canyon
• Desert
• Cove
• Mountain

a piece of land jutting into the sea or some other large body of water.

• atoll

• mesa

• keys

• cape

a small low island; a cay

• peninsula
• keys

• atoll
• mesa

a flat topped mountain with steep walls

• archipelago

• mesa
• atoll

• plateau

1. an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river.

• gorge

• reservoir
• cove

• levee

a large group or chain of islands

• cavern

• fjord

• archipelago
• cove

1. a ring-shaped coral reef or a string of closely spaced small coral islands, enclosing or nearly enclosing a shallow lagoon.

• Atoll
• lagoon

• gulf

• keys

an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.

• lagoon

• isthmus

• cape

• levee

1. a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.

• peninsula
• isthmus
• strait
• archipelago