| A | B |
| capital | a city where leaders of a state work |
| compass rose | shows directions on a map |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, and west |
| ocean | a very large body of salt water |
| continent | a very large body of land |
| country | a land and the people who live there |
| state | part of a country |
| river | a long body of water that flows across the land |
| lake | a body of water with land all around it |
| plain | an area of flat land |
| mountain | the highest kind of land |
| hill | land that is higher than land around it, but lower than a mountain |
| valley | low land between hills and mountains |
| peninsula | land that has water on three sides |
| island | land that has water all around it |