Odds and Ends
Looking at Earth
Geography Terms
More Geography Terms
Reading Maps
100
This geography theme answers the question, "Where is it?"
What is location.
100
The three oceans shown on p. I16.
What are the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans?
100
A deep. narrow valley with steep sides.
What is a canyon?
100
A large ice mass that moves slowly down a mountain or across land.
What is a glacier?
100
A drawing that shows kinds of land and bodies of water.
What is a physical map?
200
This geography theme answers the question, "What is it like there?"
What is place.
200
The line halfway between the north pole and the south pole.
What is the equator?
200
Lowland with moist soil and tall grasses.
What is a marsh?
200
The deepest part of a boy of water.
What is a channel?
200
Explains the symbols used on a map. Name both names
What is a map key or legend.
300
This geography theme answers the questions, "How is this place like other places? How is it different?"
What is regions?
300
Earth's largest land masses are called this.
What are continents?
300
Stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
300
Triangle-shaped area of land at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
300
A smaller map within a larger map.
What is an inset map?
400
This geography theme answers the questions, "How are the lives of people shaped by this place? How is this place shaped by what people do?"
What is human-environment interactions?
400
Half of Earth.
What is a hemisphere.
400
Place where a river begins.
What is a source?
400
Area of low, wet land with trees.
What is a swamp?
400
The four intermediate directions.
What are northwest, northeast, southwest, and southesast?
500
This geography theme answers the question, "How and why do people, ideas, and goods move to and from this place?"
What is movement?
500
Earth's 7 continents.
What are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America?
500
Place where a river empties into another body of water.
What is the mouth of a river?
500
Area of flat land along a sea or ocean.
What is a coastal plain?
500
The distance from Frankfurt, Kentucky, and South Bend, Indiana.
What is 250 miles?
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