Geography Vocabulary
What is a person who studies the Earth called?
Geographer
How many continents are there?
7
Which lines measure distance north or south of the Equator?
Latitude
What are the four main cardinal directions?
North, South, East, West
What type of map shows borders, countries, states and cities?
Political Map
What is a large area of land surrounded by water called?
Continent
Name the seven continents
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
Which lines measure east or west of the Prime Meridian?
Longitude
If Africa is east of South America, what body of water separates them?
Atlantic Ocean
What type of map shows landforms and physical features such as mountains, rivers, and plains?
Physical Map
What word describes one half of Earth
Hemisphere
What are the five oceans?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Artic
What does 0 degrees latitude represent?
The Equator
What is relative location?
Describing where a place is by comparing it to another place or feature.
What type of map focuses on one specific topic, such as population, climate, or natural resources?
Thematic Map
What is an area where places share one or more characteristics called?
Region
Which continent is directly south of Europe and separated from it by the Mediterranean Sea?
Africa
What does 0 degrees longitude represent, and which hemispheres does it divide?
The Prime Meridian; it divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Give one example of a relative-location statement about the United States.
Example: The United States is north of Mexico
A map shows where oil, coal, gold, and forests are located across the United States. What type of map is this?
Thematic Map
A student says, "The southern half of Earth is a type of hemisphere." Is the student correct? Explain
Yes. The Southern Hemisphere is the half of Earth south of the Equator.
You are in South America and travel directly east across the ocean. What continent would you eventually reach, and what ocean would you cross?
Africa; the Atlantic Ocean
A location is at 25 degrees S, 80 degrees W. Is it in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere? Eastern or Western Hemisphere? Explain
Southern and Western Hemispheres. 25 degrees S means south of the Equator and 80 degrees W means west of the Prime Meridian.
A group of countries all speaks similar languages and shares similar languages and shares similar traditions. What type of region could this create and why?
A cultural region because the countries share cultural characteristics such as language and traditions
A map shows the locations of mountains, rivers, and deserts but does not show state or country borders. What type of map is this, and what makes it that type?
Physical map because it shows natural/physical features of Earth's surface.