Maps/Globes
Half of the Earth
What is hemisphere?
These lines measure distance North and South of the equator
What are lines of latitude?
Boundaries made by physical features or man-made
What are borders?
Land surrounded by water
What is an island?
The reason the Wilsons went to California
What is to find gold?
The study of all Earth's physical features and living things
What is geography?
These lines measure distance east and west starting at the Prime Meridian
What are lines longitude?
Laws set up to rule a certain area
What is government?
A smaller body of salt water
What is a sea?
3 landforms that the travelers had to go through to get to California
What are mountains, rivers, and deserts?
A large mass of land
What is a continent?
The continent where 0º latitude and 60º longitude meet
What is South America?
Weather that can be measured over a long period of time
What is climate?
What is a cape?
The state where the travel to California became difficult
What is Missouri?
A visual representation of an area
What is a map?
The continent where 60º latitude and 120º longitude meet
What is Asia?
A type of vegetation region that is common in Midwest region of the US and has both hot and cold temperatures
This is a smaller stream that runs into a river
What is a tributary?
A positive to having to cross a river
What is water for the oxen to drink?
The line that runs east to west and divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the equator?
The ocean where 30º latitude and 60º longitude meet
What is the Indian Ocean?
Kind of map that shows borders of states
What are political maps?
This is formed when soil is deposited at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
The year that California became a state
What is 1850?