Geography Skills
"Half a sphere."
What is hemisphere?
North, South, East, and West.
What are cardinal directions?
A map that shows countries, capitals, and political boundaries.
What is a political map?
What is history?
Imaginary horizontal lines on earth.
What are latitude lines?
An imaginary line that cuts the earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Anything that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
What is a physical map?
The study of the period before the development of written records.
What is prehistory?
Imaginary vertical lines on earth.
What are longitude lines?
Both a continent and a country and the smallest continent.
What is Australia?
What are intermediate directions?
A type of physical map that shows how high or low land is.
What is an elevation map?
Migrants who were wandering hunters and gatherers who had no permanent homes.
Who were nomads?
What are parallels?
The imaginary line that cuts the earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
Explains what each symbol stands for on a map.
What is a map key?
What is a distribution map?
A time when glaciers covered almost one fourth of the earth.
What is the Ice Age?
Another name for longitude lines.
What are meridians?
Large bodies of land.
What are continents?
Relative size.
What is scale?
Helps distinguish countries from their neighbors on a political map.
What are colors?
The land bridge that once connected North America to Asia.
What is Beringia?
What lines of latitude and longitude are measured in.
What are degrees?