word | | Terrain |
| dominated | Eritrea | dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling ... |
| dominated | Heard Island and McDonald Islands | Heard Island - 80% ice-covered, bleak and mountainous, dominated by a large massif (Big Ben) and an active volcano (Mawson Peak); McDonald Islands - small and rocky |
| dominated | Indian Ocean | surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from ... |
| dominated | Pacific Ocean | surface currents in the northern Pacific are dominated by a clockwise, warm-water gyre (broad circular system of currents) and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the ... |
| dominates | Sudan | generally flat, featureless plain; mountains in far south, northeast and west; desert dominates the north |
| dormant | France | ... Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano Reunion: mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast |
| dormant | Saint Helena | ... small scattered plateaus and plains Ascension: surface covered by lava flows and cinder cones of 44 dormant volcanoes; ground rises to the east Tristan da Cunha: sheer cliffs line the coastline of ... |
| doubles | Arctic Ocean | ... Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is ... |
| drift | Arctic Ocean | ... average, is about 3 meters thick, although pressure ridges may be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian ... |
| drifting | Arctic Ocean | central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that, on average, is about 3 meters thick, although pressure ridges may be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort ... |
| dropping | Burundi | hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in east, some plains |
| dry | Paraguay | grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere |
| dry | Tunisia | mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara |
| dune | Gaza Strip | flat to rolling, sand- and dune-covered coastal plain |
| dunes | Niger | predominately desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in south; hills in north |
| dunes | Turkmenistan | flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south; low mountains along border with Iran; borders Caspian Sea in west |
| dunes | United Arab Emirates | flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east |
| dunes | Uzbekistan | mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan ... |
| east | Brunei | flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west |
| east | Burundi | hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in east, some plains |
| east | Chile | low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged Andes in east |
| east | China | mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east |
| east | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east |
| east | Czech Republic | Bohemia in the west consists of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surrounded by low mountains; Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country |
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