| A | B |
| Lake Tanganyika | longest and deepest in Africa; touches four different countries |
| Lake | body of water surrounded by land |
| Rift valley | long narrow valley in East Africa |
| Lake Victoria | largest lake in Africa; near the source of the Nile River |
| Lake Chad | Western Africa not mountainous; flat and shallow |
| Game reserve | area set aside by government for animals to be protected from hunters |
| canal | a waterway made by people |
| lock | a part of a canal that has gates for lowering and raising the water level |
| Lake Ontario | Niagara Falls is located here and the Niagara River flows from Lake Erie to this lake |
| Lake Superior | The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975 on this, the largest lake in the U.S. |
| Lake Huron | Saginaw Bay is part of this lake |
| Lake Erie | shallowest of the Great Lakes |
| strait | a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water |
| Lake Michigan | the only great lake entirely inside the U.S. - near the shores of Chicago |