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Height above sea level
What is Altitude?
The Hemisphere east of the Prime Meridian
What is a Eastern Hemisphere?
The lines on a map that run east to west, parallel to the Equator
What is Latitude
The imaginary line in which longitude is measured both east to west
What is the Prime Meridian?
A physical ma is a map which shoes geographical features on the earth´s surface. A political map is a map which shoes the boundaries of countries and cities
What is the difference between a physical map and political map?
What are the directions North, South, East, and West?
What is a Cardinal Directions?
A pattern of lines that cross each other to find an exact location on earth
What is Geographical Grid?
The lines on a map that run north to south, parallel to the Prime Meridian
What is Longitude
23 1/2 degrees north
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
Most white South Africans speak the language: ¨Afrikaans¨
What is the language spoken by most white South Africans?
A symbol printed on a chart or map to show direction?
What is a Compass Rose
The four four intermediate directions are Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest?
What is Intermediate Directions
A government in which a king or queen rules
What is a Monarchy
23 1/2 degrees south
What is the Tropic of Capricorn
Hieroglyphics are the ancient picture writings created by the ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics and which country/ethnic group created them?
Sandy Reefs which surround shallow lagoons
What is a Coral Reef?
An imaginary line drawn North and South through the Pacific Ocean on a map
What is International Dateline
The hemisphere north of the equator
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
The Hemisphere west of the Prime Meridian
What is the Western Hemisphere?
The geography of Africa is very diverse due to the size and scale of the continent
How can you describe the physical geography of Africa as a whole?
The process by which grasslands turn to desert
What is Desertification?
An Area surrounded by water on all sides
What is an Island
An area of land connected to a larger body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a Peninsula?
Climate is the usual pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time, whereas weather is the changer in temperature and precipitation over a short period of time
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Unlike some other parts of Africa, the West African economies are very wealthy
How can you describe the economies in the West African countries?