1.2.1 Land

Use this domain for words referring to the ground we stand on, the earth versus the sky.

OMC Codes: 
133 Topography and Geology
Louw Nida Codes: 
1 Geographical Objects and Features
1F The Earth's Surface
  • What words refer to the land in contrast to the sea?
    land (and sea), dry land, mainland, continent, inland, interior
  • What is the earth called in distinction to heaven or the sky?
    (heaven and) earth, earth (and sky), (on the) ground
  • What words refer to the ground we stand on?
    ground
  • What general words refer to the type of land in an area?
    geography, topography, feature, landscape, terrain
  • What words refer to how high the land is?
    altitude, sea level
  • What words refer to the surface of the earth?
    surface, crust, lithosphere
  • 1.2.1.1 Mountain

    Use this domain for words related to mountains.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1G Elevated Land Formations
  • What types of mountains are there?
    mountain, mount, hill, volcano, plateau, moor, butte, crag, dome, height, highland, upland, uplift, mound, formation
  • What words refer to a mountain with a flat top?
    plateau, mesa, tableland
  • What words describe land that has many mountains?
    mountain range, mountainous, the hills, hilly, rolling hills, highlands
  • What words refer to the top of a mountain?
    top, summit, peak, pinnacle
  • What words refer to the side of a mountain?
    face, mountainside, hillside, slope, shoulder, foothill, saddle
  • What words refer to a steep place on a mountain?
    cliff, bluff, butte, escarpment, ridge, precipice, brow, ledge
  • What words describe how steep a mountain is?
    slope, steep, gentle, contour, gradient
  • What words refer to the bottom of a mountain?
    foot, bottom
  • What words refer to snow on a mountain?
    snowcap, glacier
  • What words refer to rocks at the bottom of a mountain?
    moraine, talus
  • What words refer to when part of a mountain falls?
    landslide, avalanche
  • What do people do to mountains?
    climb
  • What words refer to a place you can travel through the mountains?
    pass, tunnel
  • 1.2.1.2 Volcano

    Use this domain for words related to volcanoes.

  • What words refer to a volcano?
    volcano, volcanic
  • What are the parts of a volcano?
    cone, cinder cone, core of a volcano, crater, lava flow
  • What do volcanoes do?
    erupt, eruption, spew (gas, lava, ash), explode, blow, produce a cloud, cause earthquakes, bury things (under lava, ash), smoke
  • What do volcanoes produce?
    lava, molten lava, volcanic ash, cloud of ash, ash flow, pyroclastic flow, volcanic cinder, volcanic glass (obsidian), pumice, thunder egg
  • What words refer to whether a volcano is erupting or not?
    active, dormant, extinct
  • 1.2.1.3 Plain, plateau

    Use this domain for words referring to land that is flat.

  • What words refer to land that is flat?
    plain, plateau, prairie, steppe, savanna, tundra, heath, mesa, field, meadow, pasture, flatland, tableland, bottomland, lowland, level ground, lowlands
  • What words describe land that is flat?
    flat, level, even
  • What words a place that is not very flat?
    uneven, dip, depression, basin, rut, rutted
  • 1.2.1.4 Valley

    Use this domain for words related to valleys.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1H Depressions and Holes
  • What types of valleys are there?
    valley, ravine, gully, canyon, gulch, course, basin, channel, gorge, rift, wadi, depression
  • What words describe valleys?
    narrow, broad, deep
  • 1.2.1.5 Underground

    Use this domain for words referring to the area under the ground, and to holes in the ground.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1H Depressions and Holes
    1C Regions Below the Surface of the Earth
  • What words refer to the area under the surface of the earth?
    underground, below ground, subterranean, abyss, bedrock, core, mantle, stratum, subsoil
  • What words refer to natural holes in the ground?
    hole, cave, cavern, grotto, opening, crack, depression, hollow, cavity, channel, chasm, cleft, cranny, crater, crevasse, crevice, depression, dip, mud hole, pit, sinkhole, mouth of a cave
  • What words refer to man-made holes in the ground?
    conduit, culvert, ditch, foxhole, mine, pit, pothole, rut, subway, shaft, trench, trough, tunnel, well,
  • What words refer to a hole made by an animal?
    burrow, den, foxhole, lair
  • What words refer to water under the ground?
    aquifer, underground river
  • 1.2.1.6 Forest, grassland, desert

    Use this domain for words referring to an area of land that has particular types of plants growing in it.

  • What words refer to the types of plants that grow in an area?
    ecosystem, vegetation
  • What words refer to a forest or group of trees?
    forest, forested, rain forest, grove, wood, wooded, woodland, woods, thicket, jungle, taiga, orchard
  • What are the parts of a forest?
    forest canopy, forest floor, underbrush, undergrowth, edge (of the forest), deep in the forest, backwoods, timberland
  • What words refer to a place in a forest where there are no trees?
    meadow, clearing
  • What words refer to land covered by grass or bushes?
    grassland, prairie, savannah, bush, moor, moorland, brush, brake, heath, scrubby, scrubland, shrubby, steppe, tundra, veldt
  • What words refer to land where many plants grow?
    lush, dense, thick, overgrown,
  • What words refer to land where very few plants grow?
    desert, wasteland, oasis
  • What words refer to land where no people live?
    wilderness, uninhabited, frontier, hinterland, outback
  • 1.2.1.7 Earthquake

    Use this domain for words related to earthquakes. In some languages earthquakes are thought of as moving somewhere. In Amele (PNG) they say "mim nen" which means 'the earthquake came down (from above)'. In Northern Embera an earthquake is a "house-shaking". They say "a house-shaking went."

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    14J Movement of the Earth x
  • What words refer to earthquakes?
    earthquake, quake, tremor, temblor, shock, seismic, upheaval
  • What do earthquakes do?
    rock (house, ground), shake (house, ground), crack (ground), knock down (things), cause (buildings) to collapse, ground splits, earth shifts
  • Where do earthquakes occur?
    earthquake fault, fault line, epicenter, fissure
  • What words refer to a large wave caused by an earthquake?
    tidal wave, tsunami,