Tools of the Trade
globe
What is a three dimensional representation of the Earth?
Austin
What is the state of Texas?
Southern Ocean
What is found only in the southern hemisphere?
peninsula
What is land bordered on three sides by water?
arid
What is dry?
scale
What shows the distance represented by inches or centimeters on a map?
London
What is the United Kingdom? (What is the U.K.?)
Atlantic Ocean
What borders North America, South America, Africa, and Europe?
isthmus
What connects two larger bodies of land?
modification
What is how people change their environment?
map
What is a 2D (two dimensional) representation of the Earth's surface?
Washington, D.C.
What is the United States?
Indian Ocean
What borders Africa, Asia, and Australia?
desert
What is a dry area with little rainfall?
deforestation
What is cutting down all of the trees in an area?
parallels of latitude
What measures distance north and south of the equator?
Reykjavik
What is Iceland?
Arctic Ocean
What is found only in the northern hemisphere?
steppe
What is a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia?
canal
What is a man-made waterway?
meridians of longitude
What measures distance east and west of the Prime Meridian?
Canberra
What is the capital of Australia?
Pacific Ocean
What borders North America, South America, Asia, and Australia?
savanna
What is a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees?
hemisphere
What is half of the Earth?