Measuring Our World
This is the line around which a body rotates.
What is an axis?
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A large stream that carries fresh water into an ocean or lake.
What is a river?
A green fertile area in an arid, or dry, region.
What is an oasis?
This is surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
This is the imaginary line around the middle of the Earth.
What is the equator?
A narrow strip of land, waving water on either side, connecting two large bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
This is when something is not too hot or too cold.
What is temperate?
These are the 7 continents.
What are N. America, S. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica?
This land is easily produces crops because it has a lot of rich soil from water.
What is fertile?
A small circular object that looks like a sun with 4 long rays, indicating direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
A large area of flat land or rolling land, with no mountains and few trees.
What is a prairie?
This shows you, on a map, the formations of the Earth.
What is physical geography?
This is a large area of high land created from plate tectonic movement.
What is a plateau?
These are the 5 oceans.
The imaginary line that passes through both poles and the Royal Observatory.
What is the prime meridian?
Dry, level grasslands with few to no trees.
What is a steppe?
These are people who move from place to place hunting and gathering food.
What is nomadic?
These are the areas we define as closest to the equator on Earth.
What are the Cancer and Capricorn Tropics?
This is the supplying of land with water, especially for growing crops.
What is irrigation?
This is simply another for for a longitude line.
What is a meridian?
Molten rock material beneath the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
This shows us, on a map, boundaries of states and regions and locations of cities and towns.
What is political geography?
This is grassland containing scattered trees.
What is a savannah?
This is the warm water ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico northward along the coast of the U.S.
What is the Gulf Stream?