Geography Vocab

Match the following vocab words from Lesson 1 to their definitions!

• a treeless plain in the Artic areas

• tundra

• a group of cities that form 1 big city

• Canyon

• a deep valley with steep sides

• prairie

• flat land covered in grass

• megalopolis

Match the following vocab words from Lesson 2 to their defintions!

• a giant sheet of ice

• glacier

• wide/deep enough to allow passage

• wetland

• a river that flows into a larger river

• tributary

• a low wet area such as a swamp or marsh

• navigable

Match the following vocab words from Lesson 3 to their definitions!

• resources that can be replaced

• irrigation

• when there is not enough resources

• renewable resource

• water to land through pipes and ditches

• scarcity

Match the following vocab words from Lesson 4 to their definitions!

• a moving stream of water

• drought

• a climate with changing seasons

• current

• dry

• precipitation

• moisture that falls from the sky ex:rain

• arid

• long periods without rainfall

• temperate climate

Match the following vocab words from Lesson 5 to their definitions

• violent system with high rain & wind

• global warming

• a severe winter storm with wind and snow

• tornado

• rise in the temperature of the Earth

• blizzard

• a severe wind storm, funnel shaped

• hurricane