WorksheetsCC Terms
Total questions: 151
Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins
The elevation of an object in relationship to a given plane, often sea level. What is the term?
Altitude
Arm
Atoll
Bay
A body of water interspersed with many isles. What is the term?
Archipelago
Atoll
Bayou
Bog
A long, narrow passage of water; a creek.
Arm
Branch
Stream
River
A ring-shaped coral reef, island, or set of small islands nearly or completely surrounding a lagoon. What is the term?
Atoll
Bay
Beach
Harbor
A steep slope of ground rising from a lake, a river, or the sea. What is the term?
Bank
Atoll
Bayou
River
A hollow place for water; an enclosed part for water. forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance. What is the term
Basin
Bayou
river
cavern
An arm of the sea, extending into the land, smaller than a gulf and larger than a creek. What is the term?
Bay
Bayou
Lake
Pond
A soggy, swampy, slow-moving body of water obstructed by vegetation. What is the term?
Bayou
Bay
Gulf
Basin
The shore of the sea or of a lake, washed b the tide and waves. What is the term?
Beach
Coast
Shore
Shoreline
A high bank, almost perpendicular, projecting into the sea. What is the term?
Bluff
Bog
Cove
Coast
Soft, wet ground covered in grass or other plants, too soft to bear a man. What is the term?
Bog
Bluff
Bayou
Marsh
A smaller stream running into a larger one or proceeding from it. What is the term?
Branch
Arm
Bay
channel
A rock that breaks the waves; a wave that breaks against a rock, a sand bank, or the shore, exhibiting a white foam. What is the term?
Breakers
Cove
Coast
Beach
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice or the bank of a river. What is the term?
Brink
Brook
Basin
Bog
A small natural stream of water; a current flowing from a spring. What is the term?
Brook
Canal
Stream
Arm
An artificial cut or passage for water used for transportation. What is the term?
Canal
Cape
Channel
Strait
A long deep hollow with steep, rocky sides worn by a stream or torrent of water
Canyon
Cave
Cavern
Chasm
A head land; the head, point, or termination of a neck of land, extending some distance into the sea beyond the common shore. What is the term?
Cape
Isthmus
Sound
Shore
A hollow place in the earth; a subterraneous cavern; a den; maybe natural or artificial. What is the term?
Cave
Cavern
Crag
Cove
A deep, naturally hollow place in the earth deeper than a cave. What is the term?
Cavern
Cave
Crag
Chasm
An arm of the sea; a straight or narrow sea between two continents or between a continent and a isle. What is the term?
Channel
Arm
River
Stream
A cleft or fissure in a rock or the earth's surface caused by a disrupture. What is the term?
Chasm
Cliff
Coast
Crater
A cone-shaped hill of volcanic material surrounding an opening in the earth. What is the term?
Cinder cone
Volcano
Crag
Cliff
A high, steep almost vertical rock, usually on a coast. What is the term?
Cliff
Coast
ledge
Mesa
The edge or margin of the land next to the sea; the seashore. What is the term?
Coast
Shore
Shoreline
shoal
A great extent of land, not disjoined or interrupted by a sea. What is the term?
Continent
Continental shelf
Estuary
Arm
The edge of a continent that is submerged in water. What is the term?
Continental Shelf
Continent
Crag
Cliff
Any tract of land or inhabited land; any region, as distinguished from other regions; a kingdom, state, or lesser district. What is the term?
Country
meadow
Field
Plain
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken rock or point of rock. What is the term?
Crag
Cliff
Cove
Bay
The aperture or mouth of a volcano. What is the term?
Crater
Cinder-cone
Volcano
Natural resource
A small inlet; a recess in the shore of the sea or of a river; a small stream. What is the term?
Creek
Stream
Arm
River
Land prepared for crops. What is the term?
Cultivated land
Soil
Meadow
Plain
A flowing or passing of water a stream; a steam. What is the term?
Current
Up stram
Stream
River
A low place between hills; a vale or valley. What is the term?
Dale
Hill
Land
Foot Hill
A bank or mound of earth; any wall or a frame of wood raised to obstruct a current of water of water. What is the term?
Dam
Dell
Delta
Groove
A small vale of woods. What is the term?
Dell
Glen
Woods
Forest
An area of triangular shaped land located at the mouth of a main river from which distributes flow. What is the term?
Delta
River Mouth
Mouth
Stream.
A vast sandy plain characterized by minimal precipitation and plant growth. What is the term?
Desert
Oasis
Plain
Headland
A ditch; a mound of earth, stones, or other materials, intended to prevent low lands from being inundated by a sea or river. What is the term?
Dike
Plain
Hill
Dune
A ridge that determines the direction water drains for adjacent water systems; a watershed. What is the terms?
Divide
Mountain range
Mountain
Mountain Chain
The direction a river flows, flowing with the current. What term is this?
Downstream
Up Stream
Left Bank
Right Bank
Area drained by a river and it's tributaries; a watershed. What is the term?
Drainage Basin
Whirlpool
Lagoon
Lake
Hill, mound, or ridge of sand formed by wind. What is the term?
Dune
Hill
Field
Fjord
The terraqueous planet we inhabit. What is the term?
Earth
Island
Continent
Land
Elevated ground; a rising ground; a hill or mountain. What is the term?
Elevation
Laditude
Longitude
Horizon
An arm of the sea; the mouth of a river or lake where the tide meets the current. What is the term?
Estuary
Arm
Bay
River Mouth
The point where rivers descend rapidly due to distinct decline in elevation. What is the term?
Fall line
Waterfall
Hill
River
A piece of land enclosed for tillage or pasture. What is the term?
Field
Land
Pasture
Prairie
A long, narrow, deep valley formed by glacial erosion and flooded by ocean water. What is the term?
Fjord
Chasm
Gulch
Gorge
A hill at the base of a mountain. What is the term?
Foothill
Dune
Dike
Forest
A place in a river or other water where it may be passed by man or beast on foot or by wading. What is the term?
Ford
Fjord
RIver
Arm
An extensive wood;a large tract of land covered with trees. What is the term?
Forest
Grove
Woods
Savannah
A field or immense mass of ice formed in deep but elevated valleys, remaining frozen throughout the heat of summer. What is the term?
Glacier
Tundra
Iceberg
A valley; a dale, a space between depression or space between hills. What is the term?
Glen
Gluch
Gorge
Valley
A narrow hollow with steep, rocky sides worn by a stream or torrent of water. What is the term?
Gorge
Valley
Gulch
Hill
A small wood extent. What is the term?
Grove
Woods
Forest
A small, narrow hollow with steep walls worn by a stream or torrent of water.
Gulch
Gorge
A recess in the ocean from the general line of the shore into the land; a tract of water extending from the ocean or a sea into the land between two points or promontories; a large bay. What is the term?
Gulf
Bay
Ocean
Sea
A port haven for ships; a bay or inlet of the sea where ships can moor. What is the term?
Harbor
Isthmus
Gulf
Levee
A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting from the shore into the sea or other expanse of water. What is the term?
Headland
Cape
Isthmus
Keys
A natural elevation of land; a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land. What is the term?
Hill
Dale
Valley
Dune
The line that terminates the view when extended on the surface of the earth. What is the term?
Horizon
Longitude
Latitude
Earth
A hill or mountain of ice; a vast body of ice accumulated in valleys in high northern latitudes. What is the term?
Iceberg
Tundra
Glacier
A bay or recess in the shore of the sea, a lake, or a large river; a narrow body of water between isle. What is the term?
Inlet
Bay
Ocean
Sea
Land watered by causing a stream to flow upon it and spread over it. What is the term?
Irrigated land
Land
Cultivated land
A tract of land surrounded by water. What is the term?
Island
Atoll
Archipelago
Strait
A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland.
Isthmus
Spit
The place or point of union. What is the term?
Junction
Cape
Headland
A change or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of water; a cay. What is the term?
Keys
Delta
Dam
Hill
A round hill or mount. What is the term?
Knob
Knoll
Hill
Dune
The top or crown of a hill; a little round hill or mount; a small elevation of earth. What is the term?
Knoll
Knob
Hill
An enclosed or partially enclosed shallow body of salt water divided from the ocean by low sandy dunes or a coral reef.
Lagoon
Atoll
Reef
A large and extensive collection of water contained in a cavity or hollow of the earth. What is the term?
Lake
Bay
Inlet
Lagoon
Earth; the solid matter that constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe. What is the term?
Land
Earth
field
Hill
The distance of any place on the globe, north or south of the equator. What is the term?
Latitude
Longitude
A ridge; a prominent row. What is the term?
Ledge
Cliff
Mesa
Inlet
The slope of ground on the left-handed side of the river when facing downstream. What is the term?
Left-bank
Right-Bank
A bank or cause way, particularly along a river to prevent inundation. What is the term?
Levee
Keys
Junction
Cape
The barrier of a canal that confines the water and can be open or shut at pleasure. What is the term?
Locks
Canal
Inlet
Stream
The distance of any place on the globe from another place eastward or westward; the distance of any place from a given meridian. What is the term?
Longitude
Latitude
A tract of low land, very wet and miry and overgrown with coarse of grass. What is the term?
Marsh
Mesa
Meadow
Bluff
Pasture or grassland annually mown for hay. What is the term?
Meadow
Marsh
Bluff
Bayou
A flat-topped mountain with steep walls. What is the term?
Mesa
Peak
Mountain
Mountain Chain
A pit or excavation in the earth from which metallic ores, mineral substances, and other fossil bodies are taken by digging. What is the term?
Mine
Volcano
Natural Resources
A tract of land overrun with heath; a marsh; a fen; ground covered with stagnant water. What is the term?
Moor
Marsh
Bog
Bluff
A large mass of earth and rock, rising above common level of the earth or adjacent land, but of no definite altitude.
Mountain
Mountain chain
Mountain range
Volcano
A line of connected mountain ranges. What is the term?
Mountain Chain
Mountain
Mountain Range
A row of mountains. What is the term?
Mountain Range
Mountain Chain
The opening or entrance of a cave, pit, well, or den. What is the term?
Mouth
River Mouth
River
Stream
Materials found in nature, such as land, forests, and minerals, that have economic value. What is the term?
Natural resource
Mine
Cultivated land
Irrigated land
Small fertile are in a desert, irrigated by natural springs or other source of fresh water.
Oasis
Desert
Dune
Plateau
The vast body of water that covers more then three-fifths of the surface of the globe, also called the sea. What is the term?
Ocean
Sea
Inlet
Bay
A gap in a mountainous are suitable for passing through; a means of passage through a rugged area. What is the term?
Pass
Dale
Groove
Peak
Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food of cattle. What is the term?
Pasture
Meadow
Field
The top of a hill or mountain, ending in a point. What is the term?
Peak
Cape
Headland
A portion of land connected with a continent by a narrow neck or isthmus but nearly surrounded by water. What is the term?
Peninsula
Isthmus
Inlet
Fjord
The bottom of a mountain. What is the term?
Piedmont
Foothill
Field
Prairie
A structure constructed perpendicular to the harbor for securing vessels and receiving goods unladen or to be shipped on board. What is the term?
Pier
Harbor
Large are of flat land. What is the term?
Plain
Savanna
Prairie
Land
Flat section of land higher than the surrounding area. What is the term?
Plateau
Plain
Field
Bay
A small cape, headland, or promontory; a tract of land extending into the sea. What is the term?
Point
Isthmus
Headland
Cape
A body of stagnant water usually without an outlet, larger than a puddle and smaller than a lake. What is the Term?
Pool
Pond
Lake
Bay
A small collection of water in a hollow place, supplied by a spring and discharging its surplus water by an outlet, smaller than a lake. What is the term?
Pool
Lake
Bay
Inlet
An extensive tract of land, mostly level, destitute of tress, and covered with tall, coarse grass. What is the term?
Prairie
Savanna
Field
Bay
A steep fall or descent of land, perpendicular or nearly so. What is the term?
Precipice
Horizon
Field
Prairie
A fast-moving river current, caused by a moderate decent. What is the term
Rapids
Current
Stream
River
A chain or range of rocks, lying at or near the surface of the water. What is the term?
Reef
Keys
A place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted. What is the term?
Reservoir
Dam
Basin
Drainage Basin
A long or continued range of hills or mountains; the upper part of such a range. What is the term?
Ridge
Mountain Chain
Mountain Range
The slope of ground on the right-hand side of a river when facing downstream. What is the term?
Right Bank
Left Bank
Stream
River
A large stream of water flowing in a channel on land toward the ocean, a lake, or another river, larger than a brook. What is the term?
River
Stream
Creek
Arm
The part or channel of a river by which its waters are discharged into the ocean or into a lake. What is the term?
River Mouth
Mouth
Channel
Sound
The beginning of a river; the headwaters. What is the term?
River source
Estuary
Watershed
Waterfall
Narrow ridge of the particles of stone created by the current or tide. What is the term?
Sandbar
Isthmus
Shore
Coast
An extensive open plain or meadow; a plain distribute of trees. What is the term?
Savanna
Forest
Plain
Meadow
A large body nearly enclosed by land. What is the term?
Sea
Bay
Inlet
Ocean
Ocean surface level used as base for measuring elevation and sea depth; the average tide level. What is the term?
Sea level
Longtitude
Latitiude
Horizon
A harbor of the sea, accommodating seafaring vessels. What is the term?
Seaport
Harbor
A place where the water is shallow or of little depth; a sand bank or bar; a shallow. What is the term?
Shoal
Isthmus
Sandar
Sea port
The coast or land adjacent to the sea, a large lake, or a river. What is the term?
Coast
Crag
Shore
The place where a body of water meets the land. What is the term?
Shoreline
Coast
Shore
Beach
Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plain of horizon. What is the term?
Slope
Gluch
Gorge
Canyon
The altitudinal border above which a mountain is always covered in snow. What is the term?
Snowline
Peak
Mesa
Mountain
The upper stratum of the earth; the compound substance that furnishes nutriment to plants or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them. What is the term?
Soil
Earth
Cultivated Land
Irrigated Land
A narrow passage of water; a a strait between the mainland and an isle; a strait connecting two seas or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean. What is the term?
Sound
Strait
Canal
Dam
A small point of land running into the sea; a long and narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea. What is the term?
Spit
Isthmus
Sound
Shoal
A prairie; a grassy plain characterized by a lack of trees and a shortage of rain. What is the term?
Steppe
Prairie
Plain
Savanna
A narrow pass or passage, either in a mountain or in the ocean, between continents or other portions of land. What is the term?
Strait
Sound
Tunnel
Steppe
A current of water like a river, brook, or a rivulet; a current of water in the ocean. What is the term?
Stream
River
Curent
Upstream
The highest point of a mountain. What is the term?
Summit
Peak
Mesa
Mountain
Spongy land; low ground filled with water; soft, wet ground. What is the term?
Swamp
Marsh
Bog
Bayou
A large, flat section of land higher than the surrounding area. What is the term?
Tableland
Plain
Savanna
Field
A raised bank of earth with sloping sides. What is the term?
Terrance
Basin
Drainage Basin
Bank
The cyclical rise and fall of water, resulting from the gravitational attractive force between the earth and the moon. What is the term?
Tide
Horizon
latitude
Longitude
Wood that is proper for building for tools, utensils, furniture, ships, and the like. What is the term?
Timber
Natural Resources
Oasis
Mine
The altitudinal border above where trees do not grow. What is the term?
Timberline
Snowline
peak
Groove
The detailed description of a particular place, city, town, manor, parish, or tract of land. What is the term?
Topography
Latitude
Longitude
Altitude
Smaller streams or rivers flowing into a larger body of water. What is the term?
Tributary
Estuary
Watershed
Left Bank
A vast treeless plain in the arctic region in which the ground is perpetually frozen. What is the term?
Iceberg
Tundra
Glacier
Sahara
A large subterraneaneous arch through a hill.
Tunnel
Mine
Against the current. What is the term?
Upstream
Left Bank
Right Bank
Current
A tract of low ground or land between hills or mountains. What is the term?
Vale
Gluch
Glen
Strait
A hollow or low tract of land between hills; a valley. What is the term?
Valley
Vale
Gluch
Glen
The process of growing plants by means of nourishment derived from the earth of from water and air and received through roots and leaves; vegetables or plants in general. What is the term?
Vegetation
Natural Resource
Cultivated Land
An opening in the surface or in a mountain from which smoke, flames, stones, lava, or other substances are ejected. What is the term?
Volcano
Cindercone
Mouth
A fall or perpendicular decent of the water of a river or stream; a cascade; a cataract. What is the term?
Waterfall
Estuary
River Mouth
River Source
An area that drains into a river; the divide; that leads streams of water in two opposite directions. What is the term?
Watershed
Estuary
River Source
River Mouth
A moving swell or volume of water, usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. What is the term?
Waves
Tide
Breakers
A perpendicular bank, mound, timber, or stone and earth, raised on the shore of a harbor or extending some distance of lading and unlading ships and other vessels. What is the term?
Wharf
Harbor
Port
An eddy of water; a vortex or gulf where the water moves round in a circle. What is the term?
Whirlpool
Inlet
Bank
Gulf
A large, thick collection of trees; a forest. What is the term?
Woods
Grove
Forest
