Geography Terms Flash Cards

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Title: Geography Terms
Description: Glossary of Geography Terms for 2012 Family Geography Bee
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Author: NottoScale
Created: 2012-01-23
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    • Side 3
    • Altitude
    • Distance above sea level
    • Aquifer
    • An underground reservoir of water that can be extracted for surface use
    • Archipelago
    • A group of islands or a sea studded with islands
    • Atlas
    • A bound collection of maps
    • Aurora Borealis
    • Also known as the northern lights; spectacular colored lights that appear in the sky in the far Northern Hemisphere
    • Avalanche
    • A generic term for any slide of snow, ice, and debris
    • Bay
    • A wide area of water extending into land from a sea or lake
    • Boundaries
    • Lines indicating the limits of countries, states, or other political jurisdictions
    • Canal
    • A man-made watercourse designed to carry goods or water
    • Canyon
    • A large but narrow gorge with steep sides.
    • Altitude
    • Distance above sea level
    • Aquifer
    • An underground reservoir of water that can be extracted for surface use
    • Archipelago
    • A group of islands or a sea studded with islands
    • Atlas
    • A bound collection of maps
    • Aurora Borealis
    • Also known as the northern lights; spectacular colored lights that appear in the sky in the far Northern Hemisphere
    • Avalanche
    • A generic term for any slide of snow, ice, and debris
    • Bay
    • A wide area of water extending into land from a sea or lake
    • Boundaries
    • Lines indicating the limits of countries, states, or other political jurisdictions
    • Canal
    • A man-made watercourse designed to carry goods or water
    • Canyon
    • A large but narrow gorge with steep sides.
    • Cape (or Point)
    • A piece of land extending into water
    • Cartographer
    • A person who draws or makes maps or charts.
    • Cartography
    • The art and science of making maps
    • Climate
    • The long-term trends in weather conditions for an area
    • Compass
    • A device used to determine geographic direction, usually consisting of a magnetic needle
    • Compass Rose
    • A symbol on a compass or map that is circular with graded points indicating the directions; also called rose
    • Continent
    • One of the large, continuous areas of the Earth into which the land surface is divided
    • Continental Drift
    • The current theory that the continents of the Earth move across the earth on
      giant tectonic plates.
    • Continental Shelf
    • The extension of the continents into the ocean; continental shelf land would be exposed if sea level dropped.
    • Contour Map
    • A map that shows points of equal elevation as a line.