Vocabulary: Geography

One of the most interesting things that our planet has is the great variety of beautiful landscapes and in this unit we'll see all of them. It is important to know the great Vastness of places in the Earth and all the elements that it involves.

Vocabulary

archipielago	archipiélago
bay	bahía
beach	playa
border	frontera
canal	canal
cape	cabo
capital	capital
cliff	acantilado
climate	clima
coast	costa
coastline	costa, litoral
continent	continente
country	país
delta	delta
demography	demografía
dune	duna
Earth	Tierra
equator	ecuador
estuary	estuario
fiord	fiordo
frontier	frontera
glacier	glaciar
gulf	golfo
harbour (GB), harbor (US)	puerto
hemisphere	hemisferio
hill	colina
iceberg	iceberg
island	isla
Isle (in place names)	Isla
isobar	isobara
isotherm	isoterma
jungle	selva, jungla
lagoon	laguna
lake	lago
latitude	latitud
longitude	longitud
map	mapa
physical map	mapa físico
political map	mapa político
road map	mapa de carreteras / rutas
street map	mapa de calles
marsh	pantano
meadow	prado, pradera
meridian	meridiano
mount	monte
mountain	montaña
mountain range / chain	cordillera
north pole	polo norte
oasis	oasis
ocean	océano
parallel	paralelo
peak	pico, cima
peninsula	península
plain	llanura, llano
plateau	meseta
polar circle	círculo polar
pond	laguna
port	puerto
relief	relieve
river	río
rock	peñón, roca
savannah	sabana
sea	mar
shore	costa
soil	tierra, suelo
south pole	polo sur
strait	estrecho
stream	arroyo, riachuelo
torrent	torrente
tributary	afluente
tropic	trópico
Tropic of Cancer	Trópico de Cáncer
Tropic of Capricorn	Trópico de Capricornio
valley	valle
waterfall	catarata
world	mundo
world map	mapamundi
cardinal point	punto cardinal
north	norte
northern	septentrional, del norte
south	sur
southern	meridional, del sur
east	este
eastern	oriental, del este
west	oeste
western	occidental, del oeste