The answers to the clues below will have something in common.

1. Lower slopes leading up to mountains
2. Sources of a streams and rivers
3. Boondocks
4. Isthmus
5. Dispose of by deception
6. Seneca and Cayuga, for two
7. Delta
8. San Francisco Bay, for one

Answers:

1. Foothills
2. Headwaters
3. Backcountry
4. Neck of land
5. Palm off
6. Finger Lakes
7. Mouth of a river
8. Arm of the sea

Credit: Bill Swain
              HUMAN GEOGRAPHY