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  • Common Core alignment to a Definition Match puzzle is to the key phrase "Precise Meaning".
    CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
    Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c
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    Geography Definition Match #1 -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    MATCH the Geography vocabulary list with a definition. Use the pull down menu bar to select the letter match for the Geography word puzzle.
    When you hit "Submit," you will get back the correct Geography definition match #1 answers, the percentage score for the correct answers and a sentence.
    Clue:
    In addition to this Geography Definition Match with a Geography word list. www.myvocabulary.com also provides a Geography Fill-in-the-Blank word game. See also a Word Puzzle, Word Search and Crossword activity.
    You have permission to print Geography word puzzles for more vocabulary word study at home or in classes.
    Word List
     
    1) Abrasion
    2) Continent
    3) Meander
    4) Isthmus
    5) Archipelago
    6) Eluvial
    7) Latitude
    8) Hemisphere
    9) Glacier
    10) Meridian
    11) Erosion
    12) Equator
    13) Cartography
    Definition List
     
    A)  a rubbing or wearing away; a place where the surface has been scraped off
    B)  an expanse of water with many scattered islands; a group of islands
    C)  the art or work of making maps or charts
    D)  one of the main landmasses of the globe
    E)  relating to a deposit of fine soil formed from the decomposition of rock
    F)  the great circle of the earth that is equidistant from the North & South Poles
    G)  state of being worn away in degrees by the action of water, wind, or glacial ice
    H)  large body of ice moving slowly downward or spreading outward
    I)  half of the terrestrial globe; the northern or southern half of the earth
    J)  a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
    K)  the angular distance north or south from the equator measured in degrees
    L)  to follow a winding, indirect or intricate course; to wander aimlessly
    M)  an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the north and south poles

    Geography Definition Match #2 -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    MATCH the Geography vocabulary list with a definition. Use the pull down menu bar to select the letter match for the Geography word puzzle.
    When you hit "Submit," you will get back the correct Geography definition match #2 answers, the percentage score for the correct answers and a sentence.
    Clue:
    In addition to this Geography Definition Match with a Geography word list, www.myvocabulary.com also provides a Geography Fill-in-the-Blanks word game. See also an Interactive Word Puzzle, Word Search and Crossword activity.
    You have permission to print Geography word puzzles for more vocabulary study at home or in classes.
    Word List
     
    1) Peninsula
    2) Reservoir
    3) Permeable
    4) Tropical
    5) Polar
    6) Topography
    7) Permafrost
    8) Sediment
    9) Reclamation
    10) Saturation
    11) Piedmont
    12) Tributary
    13) Terrain
    Definition List
     
    A)  Pertaining to a geographical axis or the region around it; serving as a guide; diametrically opposite (adj.)
    B)  A lasting frozen layer at variable depth below the surface of the earth in frigid regions (noun)
    C)  Having pores or openings that allow liquids or gases to pass through (adj.)
    D)  Lying or formed at the base of mountains (noun)
    E)  The act or process of altering from an undesirable or uncultivated state; the obtaining from a waste product or by-product (noun)
    F)  A place where something is kept in store, especially an artificial lake where water is kept in quantity (noun)
    G)  The act of treating, furnishing or changing with something where no more can be absorbed, dissolved or retained (noun)
    H)  Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid; material deposited by water, wind or glaciers (noun)
    I)  Ground; the physical or surface features of a tract of land (noun)
    J)  Detailed graphic delineation, mapping or charting of the surface configuration of an area (noun)
    K)  A stream feeding a larger stream or lake (noun)
    L)  Located in or used in either of two parallels of the latitude of the earth (23.5 degrees north of the equator or 23.5 degrees south) (adj.)
    M)  a portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected by an isthmus with the mainland (noun)