The number of continents on the earth
What is 7 continents?
Explain why researchers divide areas into regions
What is in order to study smaller areas with similar features?
a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
The four directions on a compass rose
What is North, East, South, West?
a mountainous vent that releases lava and ash from deep inside the Earth
What is a Volcano?
The continent shared between USA, Mexico, and Canada
What is North America?
Name 2 various ways regions can be determined.
What is landforms, climates, population, cultural or economics?
a raised area of land that is usually round on top
What is a hill?
Two types of maps
What are (could say any of these or more) 1. physical 2. political 3. thematic 4. resource 5. road?
The prime meridian divides the earth into two hemispheres
What are the Eastern and Western hemispheres?
I am the climate of the region Ohio is located in.
What is temperate?
a slow-moving river of ice that moves over land
What is a glacier?
A points location in relation to the equator
What are lines of latitude?
The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres
What are the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
Name 2 various climates that can help areas be classified into regions.
What is temperate, polar, tropic, arid, mountain, and mediterranean?
a deep valley usually carved by a river
What is a canyon?
A points location in relation to the prime meridian
What are lines of longitude?
Name 3 of the regions in the United States based upon geographic location. (There are 5)
What are the Northeast, Southwest, West, Southeast, and Midwest?
The five themes of geography
What is Location, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Movement, Region?