Object

• terrain: The first image shows a heavily cratered highland terrain with very long shadows cast by crater rims.

Converse of object

• flood: The flooded crater of the southernmost island has a resident population of unnaturally large crocodiles.

• excavate: Alternatively, explosions create cavities, for example, as bombs excavate bomb craters.

Adjective modifier

• enormous: Enormous craters dot the landscape in many regions covering dozens of square miles.

• lunar: He is honored by having a large lunar crater named after him.

• extinct: Its unique harbor was once an inland lake, in an extinct volcanic crater.

• shallow: Mount Macdonald is a shallow crater about ten miles across.

• huge: The horrific blast left a huge crater in the main Belfast to Dublin road.

Noun used with modifier

• bomb: The runways are pitted with 500 lb bomb craters, making them useless.

Modifies a noun

• lake: In the center is a crater lake about half a mile in diameter.

Noun used with modifier

• meteorite: This is the world's largest and oldest meteorite impact crater.

• meteor: They decide to visit a meteor crater, where their car fails to start leaving them stranded in the middle of the Australian outback.

• asteroid: Fossils and Asteroid Impacts Find out how examining the rocks and fossils around an asteroid impact crater can help us reveal its full effects.

• volcano: I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

• summit: Initial indications are that the emission was caused by collapse at the summit crater.

Preposition: of

• volcano: El Valle Situated in the crater of an extinct volcano, El Valle is famous for its Sunday Indian craft market.