Vocabulary 1
Four main directions: north, south, east, west
What are the Cardinal Directions?
The direction between two cardinal directions; i.e. northwest
What are Ordinal Directions?
What country is The Great Pyramid of Giza located in?
What is Egypt?
What is sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste?
World War 2 ended in this year
What is 1945?
Imaginary line around the middle of the planet, dividing north and south
What is the Equator?
The starting point for measuring longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
The continent that Mount Olympus is located in
What is Europe?
This is the largest continent
What is Asia?
This President was the 2nd President of the United States
Who is John Adams?
A half of the globe
What is a hemisphere?
How far north or south a place is from Equator
What is latitude?
Petra is located in this country
What is Jordan?
Circles contain this many degrees
What is 360?
This person was the first to walk on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Distance on a maps relation to real world distance
What is Scale?
A large expanse of land; there are seven of them
What are Continents?
The Roman Coliseum is located in this continent
What is Europe?
Buckingham Palace is located in this city
What is London?
This President was the 44th President of the United States
Who is President Barack Obama?
How far east or west a place is from the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?
A key that explains the symbols on a map
What is a Legend?
The Grand Canyon is located in this country
What is the United States of America?
A hexagon has this many sides
What is 6?
This leader of the Civil Rights Movement entered college at 15 years old
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?