Statistics for Geographic Terms by Definition

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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	93%
arid land with usually sparse vegetation	Desert	80%
a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface	Glacier	72%
a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas	Isthmus	70%
a political state or nation or its territory	Country	67%
the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river	Delta	63%
an elongate depression of the earth's surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains	Valley	61%
a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes	Fjord	57%
a coral island consisting of a reef surrounding a lagoon	Atoll	54%
a deep narrow valley with steep sides and often with a stream flowing through it	Canyon	54%
an expanse of water with many scattered islands	Archipelago	52%
one of the great divisions of land of the Earth	Continent	48%
a usually extensive land area having a relatively level surface raised sharply above adjacent land on at least one side	Plateau	46%
a moist subarctic forest dominated by conifers (such as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends	Taiga	46%
a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water	Strait	39%
a tubular anatomical passage or channel	Canal	35%
a part of a body of water protected and deep enough to furnish anchorage	Harbor	33%
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	7%