Studying History
Scholars who study, read and write about the past
A historian
How people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another
Movement
Title, Compass Rose, Key/Legend, Scale
Parts of a Map
This Continent includes the US
North America
The second largest ocean, lying west of the continents of Europe and Africa, and east of the continents of North and South America
Atlantic Ocean
The study of Earth. Including locations and descriptions of places.
Geography
This describes the unique characteristics and features of a location.
Place
A map showing boundaries of countries, states, cities etc. Each is normally a different color
Political Map
The smallest continent; the "island" continent
Australia (Oceania)
The largest ocean that is located between Asia and Australia and North and South America.
Pacific Ocean
A scientist who studies the past by examining physical artifacts that people have left behind
Archeologist
The position of anything on Earth's surface.
Location
A map that shows mountains, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
Physical Map
An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle
Antartica
The ocean that surrounds Antarctica
Southern Ocean
Any object made by a human beings, often something with historical significance
Artifact
A large area in which places share similar features
Region
The flat lines on a map that run East to west. They measure distance from the equator.
The lines on a map that run north to south. They measure distance from the Prime Meridian.
Latitude - East to west
Longitude - North to south
This continent is attached to Asia.
Europe
The ocean located near the North Pole and almost completely surrounded by the landmasses of North America, Europe/Asia, and Greenland
Artic Ocean
A person who makes maps
Cartographer
The geographic theme that explores how people use, adapt to, and modify the environment
Human-Environment Interactions
A half of the earth, divided into northern and southern by the equator, or into western and eastern by the prime meridian.
Hemisphere
The largest continent
Asia
The ocean between Africa and Australia
Indian Ocean