Geographic Dictionary (Part I)

Exact location of a place on the Earth described by global coordinates.

Area of land drained by a given river and its branches; area of land surrounded by lands of higher elevations.

Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf.

Deep and narrow valley with steep walls.

Point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.

Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other; deep part of a river or other waterway.

Steep, high wall of rock, Earth, or ice.

One of the seven large landmasses on the Earth.

Flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth.

Stretch of high land that separates river systems.

Directions in which a river or stream flows from its source to its mouth.

Height of land above sea level.

Imaginary line that runs around the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles; used as the starting point to measure degrees of north and south latitude.