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Geographic Terms
Basic Geographic Terms for Geography Class
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Geography
Undergraduate 2
12/01/2012

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Archipelago.
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a collection of closely grouped islands

 

 

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Bay
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a relatively small arm of a body of water that penetrates into a surrounding land mass.
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Canal
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an artificial channel or strait
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Cape
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a point of land that extends into a body of water
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Channel
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a wide strip of water that seperates two nearby landmasses and connects two larger bodies of water
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Continent
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a relatively large body of land that generally serves to define the boundaries between oceans
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Estuary
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the area at the mouth or lower course of a river where the river's current meets the sea's tide, mixing freshwater and saltwater
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Fjord
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a long narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs, typically formed by glacial errosion of river valleys; coastlines that are intercut with many fjords are extremely irregular
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Gulf
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a relatively large arm of a body of water that penetrates into a surrounding landmass
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Island
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a relatively small body of land that is entirely surrounded by water
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Isthmus
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a narrow strip of land that seperates two nearby bodies of water and connects two larger bodies of land
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Lake
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a body of water, either fresh or salt, that is entirely surrounded by landand which has no natural outlet to the world ocean
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Ocean
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an Ocean is an extremely large body of waterwhose borders are defined by continental landmasses
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Peninsula
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a piece of land that projects into a body of water and is surrounded by water on three sides
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Sea
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a relatively large portion of the ocean that is partially shaped by landmass, although the boundary between a sea and its adjacent ocean is often not well defined
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Strait
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a narrow strip of water that seperates two nearby landmasses and connects two larger bodies of water
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Can you find North America on a map?
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Can you find South America on a map?
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Can you find Eorope on a map?
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Can you find Asia on a map?
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Can you find Africa on a map?
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Can you find Austrailia on a map?
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Can you find Antarctica on a map?
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Can you find the Florida Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Baja Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Yucatan Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Iberian Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Italian Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Scandinavian Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Balkan Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Sinai Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Arabian Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find Cape Horn on a map?
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Can you find the Antarctic Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Cape of Good Hope on a map?
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Can you find Cape Agulhas on a map?
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Can you find the Malay Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find the Korean Penninsula on a map?
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Can you find Greenland on a map?
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Can you find Baffin Island on a map?
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Can you find Victorian Island on a map?
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Can you find Ellesmere Island on a map?
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Can you find Newfoundland Island on a map?
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Can you find New Guinea on a map?
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Can you find Borneo on a map?
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Can you find Sumatra on a map?
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Can you find Celebes on a map?
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Can you find Java on a map?
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Can you find Luzon on a map?
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Can you find Mindanao on a map?
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Can you find South Island on a map?
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Can you find North Island on a map?
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Can you find Honshu on a map?
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Can you find Madagascar on a map?
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Can you find Cuba on a map?
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Can you find Great Britain on a map?
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Can you find Ireland on a map?
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Can you find Iceland on a map?
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Can you find the Pacific Ocean on a map?
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Can you find the Atlantic Ocean on a map?
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Can you find the Indian Ocean on a map?
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Can you find the Southern Ocean on a map?
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Can you find the Arctic Ocean on a map?
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Can you find the Mediterranean Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Tyrrhenian Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Adriatic Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Ionian Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Aegean Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Black Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Dardanelles Strait on a map?
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Can you find the Sea of Sumatra on a map?
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Can you find the Bosporus Strait on a map?
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Can you find the Bay of Biscay on a map?
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Can you find Straight of Gilbraltar on a map?
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Can you find the English Channel on a map?
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Can you find The North Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Baltic Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Bothnia on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Finland on a map?
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Can you find the Norwegian Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Caspian Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Aral Seaon a map?
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Can you find Lake Baikal on a map?
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Can you find the Arabian Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Red Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Suez on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Aqaba on a map?
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Can you find the Suez Canal on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Aden on a map?
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Can you find the Persian Gulf on a map?
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Can you find the Straits of Hormuz on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Oman on a map?
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Can you find the Bay of Bengal on a map?
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Can you find the Yellow Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Sea of Japan on a map?
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Can you find the East China Sea on a map?
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Can you find the South China Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Tonkin on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Thailand on a map?
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Can you find the Strait of Malacca on a map?
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Can you find the Timor Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Afura Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Coral Sea on a map?
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Can you find the Tasmanon Sea a map?
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Can you find Lake Victoria on a map?
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Can you find Lake Titicaca on a map?
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Can you find Drake Passaga on a map?
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Can you find the Bering Sea on a map?
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Can you find hudson Bay on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of St. Lawrence on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of California on a map?
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Can you find the Gulf of Mexico on a map?
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Can you find the Caribbean Sea on a map?
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Can you find Lake Superior on a map?
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Can you find Lake Huron on a map?
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Can you find Lake Michigan on a map?
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Can you find Lake Ontario on a map?
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Can you find the Panama Canal on a map?
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