Geography Quiz

a bowl-shaped landform that is lower than the surrounding land

• Plateau

• Basin

• Coastal plain

• Levee

low, flat land that runs along a coast

• Inland

• Plateau

• Coastal plain

• Basin

The grid formed by crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude on a map

• Map key

• Global grid

• Scale

• Region

Not bordering an ocean or a large body of water by an ocean

• inland

• coastal plaine

• plateau

• basin

a wall typically made of dirt, built along a river to keep it from flooding

• Basin

• Levee

• Plateau

• Scale

an imaginary line that runs east and west around the globe, also called a parallel

• Line of longitude

• Line of latitude

• Map key

• Region

an imaginary line that runs between the North and South Poles, also called a meridian

• Line of latitude

• Line of longitude

• Global grid

• Scale

An explanation of what the symbols on a map stand for

• Map key

• Scale

• Region

• Special purpose map

A high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it

• Basin

• Plateau

• Coastal plain

• Levee

An area that shares similar features

• Region

• Scale

• Map key

• Global grid