Vocab
What is ancient?
Things that happened a very, very long time ago.
What does climate mean?
Weather patterns over time
What did the king and queen five Columbus for his trip?
Money and Ships
A large body of salt water is what?
Ocean
What are people who make maps called?
Cartographers
Equator
An imaginary line halfway between the North and South Poles
what are landforms?
Natural features of the Earths Surface
The cardinal directions
A landform that is high and steep and is the face of a rock is what?
Cliff
TRUE OR FALSE
Earthquakes and volcanoes have helped create new landforms
True
what is the Hemisphere ?
Half of the earth
The breaking down of the earth's crust
What does a map key show?
Shows what symbols on a map mean
A landform that is a low land between hills and mountains is what?
Valley
Shows what symbols on a map mean
What is a century?
100 years
What is Erosion?
The carrying away of Earth's crust
What land did Columbus find?
North America
A landform that is a mountain with a flat top is what?
Mesa
What land did Columbus find?
North America
Things that happened in the more recent past
Remains of dead plants and animals
TRUE OR FALSE
The equator is the starting point for measuring lines with latitude. The Prime Meridian is the starting point for measuring lines of longitude
True
A landform that is an area of land at the point where a river reaches an ocean is what?
Delta
A landform that is a low land between hills and mountains is what?
Valley