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> Geography and Geology

Arete, badlands, balcony, bale, bale loader, bamboo, banded, bank, bar, barchan, barge, barley, barogram, barrage, barren, barrier beach, barrier reef, basement, basic rock, basin, batholith, battery hen, bauxite, bay, bay window, bay-head beach, beach, Beach (shingle), Beaufort Scale, bed, bedding plane, bedrock, beef, belfry, bench, bent grass, benthos, Bessemer converter, black ice, blanket bog, blizzard, block field, block scree, blown sand, bluff, bog, bolson, bore, bore-hole, bottleneck, boulder, boulder choke, boulder clay, braided river, brash, brassica crop, breaker, breakwater, cairn, calcite, calcium carbonate, caldera, camp, canal, cannel coal, cannery, canyon, cap rock, carboniferous limestone, carr, carriageway, casement window, cast iron, catch crop, cathedral close, cavern, cement, centigrade, ceramics, cereal, chain store, chair lift, chalk, chapel without tower or spire, charcoal, chattermark, chemical industry, chert, chestnut, china clay, church with tower, cinder cone, circle, cirque, Cirques, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, cirrus, clay vale, clay with flints, clearing, cleavage, cliff, cliff recession, clinometer, clint, cloud, cloud cover, clover leaf junction, clubhouse, coal tar, coast, coast of emergence, cobble, coke oven batteries, col, cold strip mill, colliery, colluvium, Coloniser, combine harvester, comminution, communication, community, community centre, commute, commuter, compression, concealed coalfield, conchoidal, concretion, condensation, cone, confluence, congested, consequent, consequent stream, conservation area, container, container depot, container port, continuous strip mill, contour line, contour map, control unit, conurbation, convection, conveyance, conveyor belt, cool temperate zone, coombe rock, coping, coppice, coral, corn, cornice, corral, corrasion, corridor, corrie, corrugated, cosmopolitan, cottage industry, council estate, counterbalance, country rock, country town, cove, cover, craft, crag, crag and tail, crane, craton, creep, crescent, crescent moon, crest, Cretaceous, crevasse, crofting system, crop, cross, cross-bedding, crossing, crown land, crumble, crusher, crustal, cryopedology, crystal, cultivate, cumulus, curing, currency, current, current bedding, custom house, cutlery, cutting, cycle, cyclone, dairy farm, dam, dammed lake, debris, deciduous tree, declination, declining industry, declivity, decorated, deep sea fishing, defile, deglaciation, dehorning, delta, department store, depression, deprived area, derelict, derrick, desert, deserted village, detached house, detour, development site, dewpond, diastrophism, differential erosion, diffraction, dip, dip slope, disembark, displacement tonnage, dissected plateau, distributary channel, distributive trade, diversion, divide, dolerite, dolomite, dome, dormer window, dormitory town, downfold, downpour, downthrow side, drainage, draught animal, dredger, drifter, drive, drought, drowned valley, drumlin, dry point site, Dry Valley, dual carriageway, dune, dune slack, dust devil, dwarf willow, dyke, dyke swarm, eddy, effluent, electricity transmission line, elevator, embryo dune, epiphyte, erosion, Erratics, escarpment, esker, estate agent, estuary, expressway, extractive industry, eyot, facade, factory, factory farming, fairway, fallow, false bedding, fan vaulting, farm, farm implements, fault, fauna, feldspar, felsenmeer, fenlands, ferro-concrete, ferry, filling station, filter bed, fiord, fireclay, fisherman, fishmonger, fixed dune, Fjords, flood, flood plain, flowstone, flyover, fog, foot-loose industry, footbridge, footpath, Footpath erosion, ford, foreshore, Forestry Commission, fossil, free port, fresh breeze, freshwater, front, frontal rain, frost, frost hollow, frost shattered, funicular, gabbro, gale, gallery, garage, garaging, garden city, general store, Georgian, girder, glasshouse, gley, globe, gloup, golf links, gorge, graben, granite, Grasses, grassland, gravel, grazing land, Great Circle Route, green belt, green field site, greengrocer, greensand, grike, grotto, grove, groyne, Groyne (stone/cement), Groyne (wood), guest house, gully, halo, halophyte, Halophytic vegetation, hamlet, hanging valley, harbour, hardware shop, hatchery, haven, headland, heathland, heavy industry, heliport, Heritage Tourism, high tide, high-water mark, hill, hill fog, hill fort, hillock, hoar frost, hogback, Holiday Villages, home farm, horst, hot strip mill, hotel, hovercraft, hummock, humus, hydroelectric power, igneous rock, incised meander, industrial estate, inshore fishing, intake, interlocking spurs, intrusive rock, inversion of temperature, iron, iron ore, iron pan, irrigation, islet, isoclinal folding, isostatic adjustment, isthmus, junction, jurassic, kame, kame and kettle country, Kame terraces, karre, karst, kayak, key, key worker, kilometre, knickpoint, knitwear, knoll, knot, laccolith, lace, lag deposits, lake, Lake District, landing strip, landlocked, landmark, landslide, lateral moraine, laterite, latitude, lava, lead, legume, level crossing, ley, licenced premises, lido, lighthouse, lightship, lignite, limestone, limestone pavement, limestone pillar, limonite, linen, liner, liner train, lintel, lithosol, litter, loafing yard, loam, lock, locomotive, lode, lodestone, lodging house, Loess, lough, low water, low-water mark, lubricant, lunar month, lynchet, mackerel sky, mail boat, maize, mammatocumulus, manhole, mansard roof, marble, marginal land, market, market garden, marshalling yard, meadow soils, meander, mechanical, mechanization, medial moraine, megalith, megalopolis, megatherm, melt water, melting pot, merchandise, Merseyside, mesa, metamorphic, metamorphosed, meteorite, meter, methane, metre, mica flake, microclimate, Midlands, migration, military base, mill race, millet, millstone grit, miniature, minimum, mining, minor road untarred and minor road in towns, misfit river, mist, mobile, mobility, model town, molinia, mollusc, molybdenum, monocline, monsoon, mooring, moorland, moraine, moraine-dammed lake, mortar, mortlake, moss, motel, mother of pearl cloud, motorway, motorway under construction, mountain range, mud flat, mudflats, mudstone, mullion, muskeg, narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge track, narrow road with passing places, narrows, National Parks, nature reserve, naval base, naze, neap tide, neoclassical, ness, nimbostratus, non-porous, non-volcanic, normal tidal limit, North Atlantic Drift, north pole, notch, nuclear power station, nucleated pattern, nucleated settlement, nutrition, oasis, oblate, obliqueness, obsequent, observation, obsidian, occasional stream, occluded, occluded front, occlusion, ocean, oceanography, offshore bar, ogive, oil seed rape, oil well, one-way street, oolitic, oozes, open field system, open hearth, opencast coal mining, optician, orchard, ore carrier, orographic, orographical, outcrop, outflow, outport, outpost, outwash apron, outwash deposits, outwash plain, over thrust, overdeepen, overflow channel, overfold, overhang, overhanging cave, overhead wires, overmanning, overspill, ox bow lake, oxygen, pack ice, packet steamer, paddock, pagoda, paired terraces, Pale, pampas, panhandle, parade, parched, parent rock, parkland avenue, pass, passage, pastoral, pastoralism, pasty, patchwork, patchy grass, path, Patterned ground, pavement, peak period traffic, peak population, peninsula, penthouse, perched block, perched water table, percolation, perennial, perimeter, periphery, permanent pasture, perspective, pervious, pest, pesticide, petrification, petrified forest, petrochemical industry, pH value, phases of the moon, photogrammetry, phreatic water, physical, physical force, pilaster, pillow structure, pinnate drainage, pioneer, pipe, pipe line, pitch, pitchstone, placer gold, plain tract, planation, plane, plant association, plate, plateau, plot, plug, plunge, plunge pool, Pluto, plutonic rocks, pocket beach, pocket borough, podsolic, polder, pollen analysis, pollution, polyculture, polycyclic, ponor, pony trekker, pony trekking, pool resources, populated country, population, population explosion, porch, porphyritic, porphyry, port, position, positive, post glacial, post office, pothole, poultry, power station, pre-existing valley, precinct, precipice, prehistoric, prestige industries, prevailing wind, primate city, prime meridian, principal station, probability, projection, promenade, promontory, promontory fort, province, psammosere, public transport, public utilities, pudding stone, pulp, pump storage, purpose built resort, push moraine, pygmy, Pyramid Peak, pyroclast, pyroclastic, quadrant, quagmire, quarry, quarrying, quay, quicksands, quoin, racial discrimination, racial segregation, rack and pinion, radiant heat, radiate, radiation, radiation fog, radio mast, radio or tv mast, radioactive, radioactivity, rail junction, railway, railway siding, rain proof, rainfall, rainwash, raised beach, raised bog, raised cliff, ranch, ranch style bungalow, ranch-house, range, ranging pole, rate of growth, rateable value, ratio, ravine, raw materials, raw steel, ray, rayon, re-entrant contour line, reactor, rear access, rebate, recess, recessed window, recessional moraine, reclaim, recreation, recumbent, red ochre, redundant, redwoods, reef, refinery, refracted light, refrigeration, regency, region, regolith, regrade, regression, reindeer moss, reinforced concrete, relict landscape, relict structure, relief, relief road, render, rendzina, renewal, reorientation, resequent stream, reserve, resettle, resettlement, residential zone, resistant, Retail Parks, retail services, retreat, reversed stream, Revetments (wooden), revolution, revolve, rhyolite, Rias, ribbon lake, ribbon settlement, ridge, ridge and furrow relief, ridge of high pressure, rift, rift valley, rig, right bank, right bank tributary, right of way, rigid, rill, ring road, rip tide, ripple, river, river mist, river terrace, riverine, rivulet, road, road junction, road tunnel, road used as public path, roadstead, rock, rock basin lake, rock features, rock salt, roll on/roll off, roller, rolling downland, rolling stock, Roman, Romanization, roof line, ropeway, rose window, rotational movement, rotational slip, rough pasture, roundabout, rounded, route, routeway, rubble, ruggedness, ruin, ruminant, run, run-off, rundale, runnel, runway, rural, rural-urban continuum, rurban fringe, saddle, sag, saline, salt marsh, salt pan, saltings, sample, sample area, sanctuary, sand, sand bank, sand bar, sand dune, sand dunes, sandpit, sandstone, sandur, sash window, satellite, satellite town, saturate, Saturn, scale, scallop, scar, scarp, scarpland, scenery, schist, schistosity, scoria, scouring, scrap metal, scree, screen, scrub, scrub land, sea arches, sea level, sea stack, Sea Wall, Seaside towns, second growth, secondary productions, secondary road, secondary source, section, sedentary occupation, sedge, sedimentary rocks, sedimentation, seep, seepage, seismology, self-service store, self-sufficient, semi-detached house, sericulture, serpentine, service area, service industry, service road, settlement, sewage, shale, shanty town, shear, sheep, sheep fold, sheep walk, sheet flood, sheet wash, shelf, shelly, shelter belt, shingle, ship yard, shipment, shipping, shoal, shop conversion, shore, shrub, side wall, sill, silt, silt stone, Silurian, sink hole, sinuosity, situation, skeletal, skerry, skylight, slack, slack tide, slag, slate, sleet, slickensides, slip road, slip-off slope, slipway, sludging, slum clearance, slump, slumped cliff, smelt, smelter, smog, smoke controlled area, smokeless fuel, snow drift, snow fed river, snow line, snowfield, social space, soil, soil erosion, soil horizon, soil structure, solar system, solifluction, Solifluction terracettes, solstice, soluble, sorted, sough, sound, source, spa, spate, sphere, sphere of influence, spheroid, spheroidal, spillway, spindle, spire, spit, splinter, split-level house, spoil heap, spot height, sprawl, spring, spring line, spring line settlement, spring tide, spruce, spur, squall, stage, stagnant water, stagnation, stainless steel, stairway, stalactite, stalagmite, stand, staple, stationer, stature, steam, steam coal, steep slope, steepsided, step, Stevenson screen, stochastic, stock, stock pile, Stonehenge, stoneware, store, storey, storm beach, stoss and lee, stow, strain, strait, strand, strath, stratification, stream, street scape, striated, striation, string course, strip cultivation, strip development, strip mill, structure, stucco, Stump, subduction, submarine, submerge, submerged, submerged forest, suburbia, sugar loaf, summer solstice, summit, summit plain, sunflower, supergrid, supermarket, supersonic, superstructure, supply, survey, surveyor, suspended, swallow hole, swamp, swing, symmetric fold, syncline, tackle, tangent, tanker, tannery, tariff, tarn, telecommunication, temperate, tenement, terminal moraine, terrace, terrace house, terracette, terrestrial, territorial waters, textile industry, Theme Parks, thermometer, thicket, thoroughfare, threshold, tidal bore, tidal flat, tidal lagoon, tidal range, tidal wave, tide, tide race, tier, tile, till, tillite, tilt, tilth, timber, tinned food, toll-bridge, toll-gate, Tombolo, tongue, tonnage, tonne, topographical, topsoil, tornado, torrent, torrent tract, tourism, towering cloud, trace, trace element, tracery, track, traction, trade, trading estate, trading quarter, traffic jam, transect, transhumance, transitional, transmit, transparency, transparent, transplant, transplanted, transportation, transverse coastline, travel agent, traverse, trawl, trawl net, trawler, tree line, trellised, trench, triangulation pillar, Triassic, trough, Trough (geology), truck, true bearing, true north, truncate, truncated, Truncated Spur, trunk road, trunk stream, tufa, tuffaceous, tufted, tug, tumulus, tundra, tunnel, turbidity, turbine, turbo-generator, turbulence, turbulent, turnover, turnpike, turret, tussock, tv mast, twilight zone, twin town, U-shaped valley, ubac, ultrabasic, unconformity, under-pass, undercurrent, unpaired terrace, unproductive, unroof, unstratified, upfold, upland, uplift, upslope, upstream, upthrust, Uranus, urban, urban fringe, urban renewal, urban sprawl, V-shaped, vacancy, vadose, vale, valley, valley glacier, vapour, varve, vault, vegetable oil, vehicle, vehicular traffic, vein of ore, veneer, vent, Venus, verderer, verglas, vernal equinox, vertical exaggeration, vertical interval, vesicular cavity, viaduct, vibration, viewpoint, villa, virgin, visibility, viticulture, volcanic ash, volcanic bomb, volcanic dust, volcanic plug, volcano, voltage, vortex, walled town, ware, warehouse, warm front, warm sector, warp, warren, wash slope, waste land, water course, water features, water level, water meadow, water table, waterfall, watering place, watershed, waterspout, watertight, waterway, wattle and daub, wave refraction, wave-cut platform, wavelength, weather forecast, weather map, weathering, weave, wedge, wedging, westerlies, whale back, wharf, whirlpool, whirlwind, whistling sand, white dune, wholesaler, wild scape, wind, wind erosion, wind turbine, wind-break, windgap, window-sill, windpump, windvane, windward, winter solstice, wood, woodland, woollen industry, woollens, worker, workforce, workshop, worsted, wrought iron, xerosere, yield, zambo, zenith, zigzag


> ks1 > key human features

city, factory, farm, harbour, house, office, port, shop, town, village


> ks1 > key physical features

beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, ocean, river, sea, season, soil, valley, vegetation, weather


> ks1 > seasons

autumn, spring, summer, winter


> ks1 > weather

cloudy, cold, dry, foggy, misty, rainy, snowy, stormy, sunny


> Landforms

Alvar, Arm (geography), Bench (geology), Bocage, Bog, Burn (landform), Carr, Carse, Chalk heath, Chute (gravity), Col, Couloir, Cyclopean Stairs, Eau, Fault scarp, Fellfield, Fen, Gat (landform), Gowt, Gout or Gote, Grotto, Heath, Highland, Hillock, Interlocking spur, Intertidal wetland, Intertidal zone, Karst, Little Switzerland (landscape), Lowland, Lynchet, Marine terrace, Massif, Moorland, Mudflat, Muskeg, Narrows, Paternoster lake, Promontory, Purple moor grass and rush pastures, Reef knoll, Rocky shore, Salt pan (geology), Sandfall, Schlatt (landform), Shore, Shrub swamp, Skerry, Slot canyon, Snow field, Spur (topography), Strand plain, Submergent coastline, Table (landform), Terrace (geology), Thalweg, Tidal course, Washes, Waterhole
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