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MAT Geopraphy
MAT Geography
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Geography
Graduate
10/30/2012

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archipelago
Definition
chain of islands
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butte
Definition
a flat topped rock or hill formation with steep sides, smaller than a mesa
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cape
Definition
point of land that extends into a bay
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cove
Definition
a small sheltered bay or inlet
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delta
Definition
fan-shaped alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
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Mount McKinley
Definition
tallest mountain in North America, located in Alaska
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mesa
Definition
flat-topped steep hill
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estuary
Definition
salty end of a river where it meets the sea
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hurricane
Definition
tropical storm in the Atlantic
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sound
Definition
long inlet separating shoreline from an island
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strait
Definition
narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water
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tundra
Definition
cold, treeless; , a vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line
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watershed
Definition
area drained by a river and its tributaries
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Mount Everest
Definition
highest mountain in the world, located in Nepal (Himalayas)
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Lake Baikal
Definition
Russia
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Amazon River
Definition
South America
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Angel Falls
Definition
Venezuela
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Caspian Sea
Definition
Central Asia
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Lake Superior
Definition
largest freshwater lake
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loess
Definition
fine deposit of silt, sand, and clay
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moraine
Definition
accumulation of glacial deposits
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oasis
Definition
fertile area in the desert
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isthmus
Definition
narrow strip of land with water on both sides
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lagoon
Definition
shallow body of water between a reef and shore or within an atoll
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fjord
Definition
glacier-produced coastal valley filled with sea water
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gulf
Definition
large inlet of a sea
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arroyo
Definition
deep, dry, water-carved gulley
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atoll
Definition
coral reef that encircles a lagoon
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bay
Definition
inlet of a sea or lake
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Portuguese West Africa
Definition
Angola
Term
East Pakistan
Definition
Bangladesh
Term
British Honduras
Definition
Belize
Term
French Indo-China
Definition
Cambodia
Term
French Equatorial Africa
Definition
Chad
Term
Abyssinia
Definition
Ethiopia
Term
Gold Coast
Definition
Ghana
Term
British Guiana
Definition
Guyana
Term
Saigon
Definition
Ho Chi Minh City
Term
Netherlands East Indies
Definition
Indonesia
Term
Persia
Definition
Iran
Term
Mesopotamia
Babylon
Assyria
Definition
Iraq
Term
Constantinople
Definition
Istanbul
Term
French Indo-China
Definition
Laos
Term
Malagasy
Definition
Madagascar
Term
South West Africa
Definition
Namibia
Term
French West Africa
Definition
Niger
Term
Leningrad, Petrograd
Definition
Petrograd
Term
Trujillo
Definition
Santo Domingo
Term
Ceylon
Definition
Sri Lanka
Term
Dutch Guiana
Definition
Surinam
Term
Siam
Definition
Thailand
Term
Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn
Definition
Volgograd
Term
Congo
Definition
Zaire
Term
Northern Rhodesia
Definition
Zambia
Term
Rhodesia
Definition
Zimbabwe
Term
Lines of Latitude
Definition
Parallels - Run east- west. Measure distance (in degrees, minutes, seconds) north and south of the equator (0 degrees latitude), the lowest latitude possible. The highest latitude possible is 90 degrees north (North Pole) and south (South Pole).
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Lines of Longitude
Definition
Meridians - Run north-south. Measure the distance (in degrees, minutes, seconds) east and west of the Prime Meridian (0 degrees longitude). The highest longitude possible is 180 degrees (east and west), called the International Date Line.
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Antarctic Circle
Definition
66.5 degrees north
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Arctic Circle
Definition
66.5 degrees south
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Tropic of Cancer
Definition
23.5 degrees north
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Tropic of Capricorn
Definition
23.5 degrees south
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