Continents & Oceans
The largest and most diverse continent on Earth
What is Asia?
Lines on a map that run east to west, measuring how far north or south
What is latitude?
The huge desert covering most of North Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
Jobs, safety, and schools that attract people to a new place
What are pull factors?
A wall built across a river to control flooding and make electricity
What is a dam?
The cold ocean at the top of the world, near the North Pole
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The O degree line of latitude that divides the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
The mountain range running along South America's west coast
What is the Andes Mountains?
The number of people living in a specific area, like per square mile
What is population density?
Houses made of ice built to survive cold winters
What are igloos?
The continent where Brazil and Argentina are located
What is South America?
A type of map that shows countries, capitals, and borders
What is a political map?
A high landform that is flat on top, like a tabletop
What is a plateau?
Most Egyptians live along this river because most of Egypt is desert
What is the Nile River?
Changing YOURSELF to fit the land
What is adapt?
The ocean that encircles Antarctica, near the South Pole
What is the Southern Ocean?
A map tool used to measure the distance between two points
What is a scale?
The narrow strip of land connecting North and South America
What is the Isthmus of Panama?
Most large North American cities, like New York City, are along this coast
What is the Atlantic coast?
Changing the LAND to fit your needs
What is modify?
North and South America are entirely located in this hemisphere
What is the Western Hemisphere?
Using latitude and longitude coordinates gives you this exact type of location
What is absolute location?
The region home to the highest mountain peaks on Earth, the Himalayas
What is South Asia?
The two things migration mainly changes about a place
What are culture and politics?
What is deforestation?