Geographic Terms by Definition - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
a considerable inland body of standing water	Lake	100%
a landmass that projects conspicuously above its surroundings and is higher than a hill	Mountain	98%
a natural stream of water of usually considerable volume	River	94%
arid land with usually sparse vegetation	Desert	81%
a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface	Glacier	72%
a political state or nation or its territory	Country	68%
a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas	Isthmus	68%
the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river	Delta	62%
an elongate depression of the earth's surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains	Valley	62%
a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes	Fjord	55%
a coral island consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon	Atoll	53%
a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it	Canyon	53%
an expanse of water with many scattered islands	Archipelago	51%
one of the great divisions of land of the Earth	Continent	47%
a usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side	Plateau	47%
a moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (such as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends	Taiga	45%
a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water	Strait	38%
a tubular anatomical passage or channel	Canal	34%
a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage	Harbor	34%
a point or extension of land jutting out into water as a peninsula or as a projecting point	Cape	26%
an administrative subdivision of a country	Territory	6%