Travel and getting around
Landforms and Directions
The features of a continent and the way to describe where they are.
- Teens and up
- Medium · B1
- 12 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- desert
- a huge dry area of land where almost no rain falls
- compass
- an instrument with a needle that shows which way is north
- world
- the earth and everyone living on it
- sound
- anything you can hear
- degree
- a unit for measuring angles or temperature
- continent
- one of the seven huge land areas of the world
- bay
- a part of the sea that curves into the land
- plateau
- a large flat area of high ground
- channel
- a narrow stretch of water joining two larger areas
- delta
- the flat land where a river splits before reaching the sea
- west
- the direction where the sun goes down
- volcano
- a mountain that can throw out hot molten rock
