Geographic Terms by Definition

Name these Geographic Terms by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition.

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a landmass that projects conspicuously above its surroundings and is higher than a hill	Mountain
a considerable inland body of standing water	Lake
a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage	Harbor
a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas	Isthmus
a usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side	Plateau
a natural stream of water of usually considerable volume	River
a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it	Canyon
arid land with usually sparse vegetation	Desert
one of the great divisions of land of the Earth	Continent
a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes	Fjord
a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface	Glacier

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a political state or nation or its territory	Country
an administrative subdivision of a country	Territory
a tubular anatomical passage or channel	Canal
a moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (such as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends	Taiga
a coral island consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon	Atoll
a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water	Strait
an expanse of water with many scattered islands	Archipelago
a point or extension of land jutting out into water as a peninsula or as a projecting point	Cape
an elongate depression of the earth's surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains	Valley
the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river	Delta

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Jul 31, 2017

Harbour should be accepted surely?

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It is now

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