Water Features
Landforms
Vocabulary
It's On the Map
What's the Address?
100
the end of a river where it branches into smaller streams and empties into the ocean
What is a delta?
100
a large, flat area of land higher than its surroundings
What is a plateau, mesa or butte?
100
An imaginary line of latitude 0 degrees around the center of earth
What is the equator?
100
The most northern and southern points on earth
What are the poles?
100
The relationship between an actual distance on earth and the same distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
200
a strip of water connecting two larger bodies of water
What is a strait
200
A piece of land that juts out into the ocean, surrounded by land on three sides
What is a peninsula?
200
Asia, Africa, Europe, Antarctica, N. America, South America and Australia
What are the seven continents of the Earth?
200
One half of the globe, either north or south, or east or west.
What is a hemisphere?
200
0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
a large body of water partially surrounded by land
What is a gulf or a bay?
300
A deep valley with steep, high walls
What is a canyon?
300
The study of how groups of people govern themselves
What is political science?
300
The distance east or west of the Prime Meridian measured in degrees.
What is longitude?
300
0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
400
the ocean between the Americas and Europe and Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
The area where ocean meets land.
What is a coast or coastline?
400
The business of raising livestock or farming
What is agriculture?
400
A meridian.
What is another word for a line of longitude?
400
Only South America and Africa.
What are the only two continents crossed by the equator?
500
a chain of small islands
What is an archipelago?
500
flat, or gently rolling hills of grasslands
What is a plain?
500
How many people live in a given area.
What is population density?
500
Parallel.
What is another word for a line of latitude?
500
23 degrees North.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
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