Continents & Oceans
Geoterms
Earth and Sun
Coordinates
Map Titles and Symbols
100
Largest Ocean in the world
What is the Pacific ocean
100
The precise location of a place on Earth.
What is absolute location
100
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of the Earth.
What is Earths Axis?
100
0 degrees longitude
Where is the Prime meridian?
100
Lists each symbol and explains what it shows on the map.
What is a map legend or map key?
200
The largest Continent in the world
What is Asia
200
A change in the shape or size of a feature on a map
What is distortion
200
Recieve a lot of sunshine and are hot all year round.
What are tropical zones?
200
22.5 degrees North Lattitude
Where is the Tropic of Cancer?
200
Shows directions on a map
What is a compass rose
300
The coldest Continent on the planet
What is Antartica
300
A place located in relation to another place
What is relative location
300
These zones receive little sunlight and are cold most of the year.
What are polar zones
300
66.5 degrees North latitude
Where is the Arctic Circle
300
Tells you the distance from one location to another.
What is a map scale?
400
This Ocean seperates North America and Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
400
Half of the Earth
What is a Hemisphere?
400
It creates the Earths Seasons
What is Earths Tilt?
400
0 degrees latitude
Where is the Equator?
400
A system of lines to divide up space on a map to help pinpoint locations.
What is a grid?
500
it is the smallest continent in the world also known as the outback.
What is Australia
500
A way or representing the spherical earth on a flat surface
What is map projection
500
in these zones summers are warm and winters are cool
What are Temperate Zones?
500
22.5 degrees south latitude
Where is the Tropic of Capricorn?
500
These types of directions are Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast.
What are intermiediate directions
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