What is any one of the earth’s seven large land masses such North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, Antarctica?
100
Canal
What is a narrow, man-made waterway used for ships or irrigation?
100
Antarctic Circle
What is an imaginary line of latitude 66° 30’ (66 degrees 30 minutes) south of the equator?
100
Equator
What is an imaginary line of latitude (0°), halfway between the North and South Poles?
100
Canada
What is the country located north of the United States?
200
Eastern Hemisphere
What is the half of the earth that includes Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and their waters?
200
Basin
What is a depression or hollow which may or may not contain water, surrounded by higher land?
200
Arctic Circle
What is an imaginary line of latitude 66° 30’ north of the equator?
200
Prime Meridian
What is the zero meridian from which east and west longitude are measured, passing through London (Greenwich)?
200
Altitude
What is the height or elevation above sea level?
300
Valley
What is a long, narrow, land area lying between two areas of higher elevation. A valley usually contains a river or stream?
300
Straight
What is a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water?
300
Longitude
What is the distance, measured in degrees, east or west of the prime meridian?
300
Tropic of Capricorn
What is an imaginary line of latitude 23° 30’ south of the equator?
300
Scale
What is the numerical relationship between an actual distance on the earth and the distance which it represents on a map?
400
Plateau
What is an elevated area of mostly level land, sometimes containing deep canyons?
400
Delta
What is a triangular or fan-shaped area of soil that has been carried downstream and dropped at the river's mouth.22. Desert: a land area so dry that little or no plant life will grow. Very few people live in a desert?
400
Latitude
What is the distance, measured in degrees, north or south of the equator?
400
Coast
What is the land bordering the sea?
400
Africa
Egypt is a part of which continent?
500
Archipelago
What is a group or chain of islands?
500
Oasis
What is a spot in a desert made fertile by the presence of water?
500
Tropic of Cancer
What is an imaginary line of latitude 23° 30’ north of the equator?
500
Horizon
What is the line where the earth's surface and the sky seem to meet?
500
Western Hempisphere
The continent of North America is found in which hemisphere?