Travel and getting around
Around the Globe
Poles, plains, and the lines drawn between them.
- Teens and up
- Medium · B1
- 12 words
The words
Every word in this set, with what it means. Tap a word to hear it.
- pole
- a long thin rounded piece of wood or metal
- north
- the direction to your left when you face the rising sun
- oasis
- a green place with water in the middle of a desert
- peninsula
- a strip of land with water on nearly every side
- capital
- the city where a country's government works
- source
- the place where something begins
- east
- the direction where the sun rises
- glacier
- a huge mass of ice that moves very slowly down a valley
- plain
- simple, with no pattern or decoration
- cave
- a large hollow space under the ground or in a hillside
- altitude
- the height of something above sea level
- equator
- the imaginary line around the middle of the earth
