Geography Vocabulary

A piece of land almost surrounded by water or sticking out into a body of water

• Cape

• Plateau

• Peninsula

• Isthmus

dirt and sand found and collected at the mouth of a river

• Isthmus

• Tributaries

• Basin

• Delta

A low area of land typically between mountains

• Valley

• Canyon

• Strait

• Costal Plain

A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or larger bodies of water

• Atoll

• Valley

• Strait

• Isthmus

A narrow strip of land with water on either side connecting two larger areas of land

• Strait

• Isthmus

• Valley

• Plateau

An area of flat ground that is higher than the surrounding ground

• Valley

• Peninsula

• Continental Shelf

• Plateau

A chain, cluster, or collection of islands

• Archipelago

• Strait

• Atoll

• Isthmus

Water and trees found in the desert

• isthmus

• oasis

• peninsula

• strait

A large flat area usually high off the ground

• tributary

• gorge

• delta

• plateau

A river found between mountains

• plateau

• valley

• gorge

• delta