Vocabulary
The study of the world around us and its people.
What is geography?
The symbol on a map that displays the compass directions.
What is a compass rose?
The direction in which lines of latitude run.
What is east to west?
The number of continents on Earth?
What is 7?
This feature covers almost three fourths (3/4) of the Earth's surface?
What is water?
A tool or instrument for finding directions.
What is a compass?
The section of a map that explains certain symbols used on the map.
What is a map key?
The direction in which lines of longitude run.
What is north to south?
The number of oceans on the Earth?
What is 5?
A physical feature on Earth's surface such as a mountain or a plain?
What is a landform?
A sphere that is a model of Earth and most accurately represents it.
What is a globe?
A type of map that shows the physical features of a land.
What is a physical map?
The line that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres?
What is the Prime Meridian?
The smallest ocean on Earth.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The physical feature that describes a region's plant life, such as forests, grasslands, or plains.
What is vegetation?
The organization that makes the laws in a country, state, or community, and has the power to enforce them.
What is government?
North, South, East, and West.
What are cardinal directions?
The line that divides the earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The largest continent on earth.
What is Asia?
Swamps, marshes, and wetlands are found this area of land.
What is a gulf coastal plain?
Weather elements such as temperature, rainfall, and wind that are measured over a period of time in an area.
What is climate?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest.
What are intermediary directions?
The degree at which the Equator marked?
What is zero (0) degrees?
The continent that appears in both the Southern and Western hemispheres on a flat map.
What is South America?
The largest river in the United States that runs from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?