Geography
Since Many Analogy Questions feature technical terms from Geography, which even students with strong general vocabulary, may not be aware of, this chapter gives such a list of words from Geography for the benefit of all the students.
Atoll: coral island
Boulder: a large mass of rock
Cave: hollow area in earth with opening at the surface
Cavern: a large roofed-over cave in a rock
Cone: peak of volcano
Continent: a large landmass on the surface of earth
Crater: round pit at the summit of a volcano
Crevasse: deep crack in glacial ice
Dune: a small hillock formed by wind-blown sand
Delta: triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
Detritus: loose fragments of rock
Flint: quartz that produces spark when struck by steel
Fossil: skeleton of dead animal or plant preserved in petrified rock form
Glacier: massive, moving ice layer
Geyser: a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and stream into the air
Gravel: loose, rounded fragments of rock
Lignite: low grade brown coal
Loam: rich soil of clay, sand and organic matter
Lodestone: magnetic rock
Meteorite: a stony or metallic mass of matter that has fallen to the earth’s surface from outer surface
Monolith: single large block of stone
Pebble: a small stone that has become smooth through erosion
Plateau: flat, broad area of at least 2000ft. above sea level
Range: system of connected mountains
Reef: strip, ridge of rocks, sand or coral that rises near the surface of a body of water
Rubble: rough, irregular, loose fragments broken from a large mass of rock
Sediment: material deposited by water or wind
Shale: fissile rock composed of layers of clay like, fine grained sediments
Silt: loose sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles
Slurry: water mixture of insoluble mud and lime
Trench: long and deep trough in ocean floor bordering few continents
Volcano: cone shaped mountain that vents hot, molten lava from the earth’s interior
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