Hemispheres & Continents
This word names one half of Earth, such as the Eastern or the Western one.
What is a hemisphere?
This kind of map shows countries, borders, and capital cities.
What is a political map?
This is the study of how people divide Earth into countries, borders, and other political units.
What is political geography?
This line separates one country from another.
What is a border?
This is a written agreement between countries, often used to end a conflict or settle a border.
What is a treaty?
In this unit, these two continents make up the Western Hemisphere.
What are North America and South America?
This kind of map shows landforms and bodies of water, such as mountains and rivers.
What is a physical map?
A land with its own government, borders, and people, such as Japan or Brazil, is called this.
What is a country?
Africa is one of these, a very large landmass, while Egypt is a country on it.
What is a continent?
This wall divided the city of Berlin for nearly 30 years until it fell in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia are the four continents we place in this hemisphere.
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
This part of a map explains what its colors and symbols mean.
What is the map key?
When a border moves, such as when land is traded in a treaty, this two-word term describes what happened.
What is a boundary change?
This word means a country's right and power to govern itself.
What is sovereignty?
This word names the 1990 event in which East and West Germany became one country again
What is reunification?
This is the largest continent in both size and population, and it is home to China and India.
What is Asia?
A map's scale says 1 inch = 100 miles. Two cities are 3 inches apart on the map. This is how far apart they are in real life.
What is 300 miles?
This part of a map lets you compare distance on the map to real distance on the ground.
What is the map scale?
A border formed by a landform, such as a river or a mountain range, is called this.
What is a natural border?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and moved the border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This line at 0 degrees runs through Greenwich, England, and helps divide Earth into East and West.
What is the Prime Meridian?
To find a country's capital and then a mountain range near it, you would use these two types of maps, in that order.
What are a political map and then a physical map?
Rivers, mountain ranges, and deserts are all examples of these natural features of Earth's surface, which can sometimes form borders.
What are landforms?
This river forms part of the natural border between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
Name 4 of the 7 U.S States that Mexico gave up in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming