Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere
- Great Rift Valley
- ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
- Fountain of Youth
- a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
- basin
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- Europe
- the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
- lowland
- low level country
- Garonne River
- a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay
- Milky Way Galaxy
- the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky
- wall
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- Proxima Centauri
- the nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years
- thunderhead
- a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm
- Bootes
- a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Ursa Major
- Denali Fault
- a major open geological fault in Alaska
- Alaska Peninsula
- a peninsula of southwestern Alaska (a continuation of the Aleutian Islands)
- Cross-Florida Waterway
- a waterway used by small boats to travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico through Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee Canal and the Caloosahatchee River
- geode
- (mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals
- strange quark
- a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
- River Trent
- a river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber
- outer planet
- (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
- slough
- a hollow filled with mud
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