Flashcards › Lakes Unit Vocabulary

a slow-moving or standing body of water surrounded completely or nearly completely by land lake a steep-sided valley formed by land that slips down between cracks in the Earth's surface rift valley a lake found in a deep crack that was formed when a block of land slipped down between cracks in the Earth's surface rift-valley lake an area of flat, high land plateau a hollow in the Earth's surface where a lake forms basin a story handed down from earlier times often based on fact, but not entirely true legend a tall grass with long, thin, hollow stems that grows in or near water reeds a large South American mammal raised for its wool and used to carry loads; related to the camel llama a part of an ocean extending into land gulf a framework tower that supports a drill over an oil well derrick a lake that has formed where rocks or debris have built up to stop the water from flowing away barrier lake the place where the land and the ocean meet; the outline of the land that is next to the sea coastline a lake in a bowl-shaped basin worn away by a glacier erosion lake a human-made waterway largely used to connect bodies of water canal the continents of Europe and Asia together as one land mass Eurasia These are all the vocabulary words for the Lakes of the World Unit.