Landscape
Since Many Analogy Questions feature technical terms from Landscape, which even students with strong general vocabulary, may not be aware of, this chapter gives such a list of words from Landscape for the benefit of all the students.
Archipelago: a group of islands
Atoll: ring-shaped coral reef enclosing a lagoon
Basin: depression in earth’s surface with a lake or pond at the bottom
Bay: small sea
Boca: river mouth
Bog: wet spongy ground, swamp
Brook: small stream of fresh water
Canal: man made navigable water way
Canyon: deep, narrow valet with steep sides, carved by a river
Cascade: small waterfall
Chasm: deep cleft in earth, gorge
Cove: sheltered recess on the coast line lines
Crater: bowl shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano
Creek: small, slow moving stream
Delta: flat, alluvial plain at the mouth of the river
Eddy: circular movement of water in a river
Floe: large, flat mass of ice floating in a sea
Ford: shallow part of a stream through which one can walk across
Glacier: large mass of moving ice
Glade: open, grassy area within forest
Gorge: narrow, steep ravine with rocky walls
Grove: small wood
Headland: high point of land projecting into the sea, promontory
Heath: open wasteland with shrubs, moor
Hedge: row of shrubs forming a boundary
Iceberg: large mass of ice floating on sea
Isthmus: narrow strip of land with water on both sides and connecting two large bodies of lands
Knoll: small, rounded hill
Lagoon: shallow body of water cut off from the sea by sandbar
Marsh: wet, boggy land: swamp
Moor: open wasteland with shrubs, heath
Orchard: grove with fruit trees
Peninsula: large land area with sea on three sides
Prairie: large track of rolling grassland
Precipice: near vertical face of a hill
Quagmire: marsh, bog
Quicksand: bed of loose and wet sand that yields underfoot
Ravine: narrow, steep depression formed by running water
Rivulet: small stream
Savanna: grassy plain
Scrub: growth of low trees and shrubs
Shingle: coarse alluvial material along sea shore
Shoal: shallow place in river, sand bar
Shrub: short multi-stemmed plants
Strait: narrow water way connecting two large bodies of water
Summit: highest point of a mountain
Surf: waves breaking against the beach
Tableland: flat, elevated track of land
Thicket: dense growth of shrubs
Tide: rise and fall of sea level at a place due to the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun
Torrent: stream with a strong current
Tributary: stream leading to a larger river
Tundra: level, treeless plain in the arctic region
Valley: long depression between two hills
Vineyard: field of grapevines
Vista: height allowing view over a large expanse of land
Vortex: whirlpool
Whirlpool: water spinning rapidly in a circle with a downward sucking force
Wood: dense growth of trees
Since Many Analogy Questions feature technical terms from Landscape, which even students with strong general vocabulary, may not be aware of, this chapter gives such a list of words from Landscape for the benefit of all the students.
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