Geography terms

Year Of English:  Geography termsCheck out this interesting list of terms to describe geography in English:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/glossary/ 
You can use these vocabulary items to explain the land area round a place. The list has a lot of terms, including some which aren't very common. So here are the terms which are absolutely necessary:

• mountain
• river
• pond
• sea
• ocean
• lake
• desert
• hill
• island
• cave
• swamp
• valley
• volcano
• waterfall

Here are some which are not quite as necessary, but which are commonly used in English:

• altitude
• bay
• canal
• canyon
• cliff
• continent
• cove
• glacier
• gulf
• peninsula
• plain
• plateau
• reef
• reservoir
• sea level
• tundra
• latitude
• longitude
• North/South Pole
• Northern/Southern/Eastern/Western Hemisphere
• equator
• Tropics
• Arctic/Antarctic Circle
• atlas

And here are some terms which are not used very often:

• archipelago
• atoll
• cape
• channel
• compass
• compass rose
• delta
• dune
• estuary
• fjord
• geyser
• lagoon
• marsh
• mesa
• oasis
• prairie
• sound
• source
• tributary
• wetland