Globe and Locations of Earth
A round model of the Earth
What is a globe called?
The symbol on the Earth that shows where North, South, East, and West are
what is a compass rose ?
This map shows landforms like mountains, lakes, rivers, mountains
What is a physical map?
Landforms that rise very high above the land
What is a mountain?
A n area in which places share silimlar characteristics
What is a region?
Continent we live in
North America
The directions North, South, East and West are called
What are cardinal directions?
A book of maps people used to look in to find where someplace was located. It starts with an a
What is an atlas?
Large chains of mountains are called
What are mountain ranges?
What is 5?
2 halves the Earth is cut into begins with an h_____
What is a hemisphere?
Directions on the compass rose like southeast, northeast, southwest, and northwest
What are intermediate directions?
the mountain range that runs in the southeast and northeast - it begins with a A
What are the Appalachian mountains?
a landform that rises above land but is rounded
What is a hill?
What is Appalachian mountains?
imaginary lines going horizontally around the Earth
What is latitude?
The symbol on the map that shows the distance between locations like cities
What is a map scale?
This map shows how high the land is - like how many miles high
What is an elevation map?
What is a Mesa?
The Midwest where we live is known for land that is called the p___
What is the plains?
Imaginary lines going around the Earth vertically
What is longitude?
This kind of map shows cities, capital cities, and names of states and countries
What is a political map?
The name for height above sea level - it begins with an E
What is elevation?
A dep narrow valley that has very steep sides and is carved out by a river over millions of year
What is a canyon?
The Southwest region has a lot of land that is called the - it begins with a d____
What is desert?
The latitude line in the middle of the Earth at 0 degrees
Equator
The box in the corner of a map that tells what things ionthe map are
what is a map key?
What is colors?
a body of water that carries water to oceans and is not salty
What is the Grand Canyon?
The longitude line that cuts the Earth in half and is at 0 degrees
what is the Prime Meridian?
Topeka
mountain range that goes through the southwest and western region in the United States
What is the Rocky Mountains?
The land along an ocean or a bay where the water meets the land
What is a coast?
rivers and mountains make this around states
What is borders or boundaries?