Water
A large stream of water that flows across the land.
What is a river?
This helps you to understand symbols on a map.
What is the Map Key?
Drawings that show what places look like from above and where these places are located.
What are Maps?
The study of Earth - it's land, water, and people.
What is Geography?
A large area of flat land with a few trees.
What is a Plain?
What is an island?
A body of water with land on all sides.
What is a lake?
A symbol that shows directions on a map.
What is a Compass Rose?
A ratio which compares to the actual distance between locations.
What is Scale?
Half of a sphere that is created by the Equator or Prime Meridian.
What is Hemisphere?
Natural features of Earth's Surface such as a mountain, plain, or river.
What are Physical Features?
Low land between hlls or mountians.
What is a valley?
A large body of saltwater that covers a large area.
What is an Ocean?
What is a Symbol?
The weather in a place measured over time.
What is Climate?
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A large area of trees.
What is a Forest?
A landform that is surrounded by only three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
A large body of ocean water that is partly surrounded by land.
What is a gulf?
North, South, East, and West.
What are Cardinal Directions?
Found in nature and can be used by people. Earth's include light, air, water, plants, animals, and stone.
What are Natural Resources?
Horizontal lines on the globe also known as parallels (equal distance from each other and never meet).
What is Latitude?
A large dry area of land.
What is a desert?
a narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land.
What is an Isthmus?
Part of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
What is a Sea?
North West, (NW), North East, (NE), South West, (SW), and South East, (SE).
What are Intermediate Directions?
An imaginary line that divides into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The lines running vertically around the Earth. They all meet at the poles and are widest at the equator.
What is Longitude?
The highest kind of land.
What is a mountain?
An inlet of the sea or other body of water usually smaller than a gulf.
What is a Bay?
Places that have common characteristics.
What are Regions?
A large flat area that is higher than other areas of land that surround it.
What is a Plateau?