A path of water that flows into another water source.
What is a river?
Why do you think rivers and valleys are important? (Think back to your readings)
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A piece of land much higher than its surrounding area...
What is a mountain?
The biggest continent in the world...
What is Asia?
On a map: tells you what each symbol means?
What is a legend/key?
Why would water be a good benefit to ancient civilizations?
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A large body of land that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
Name 2 continents that are islands.
What is Australia and Antarctica?
On map this tells what the map is about.
What is a title?
What is the Prime Meridian?
The biggest ocean in the world that appears om both sides of a flat map...
What is the Pacific Ocean ?
How many continents and oceans are there?
What is 7 and 5
What is a benefit of an island?
This imaginary line that divides the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
The ocean on the east side of North America...
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A flat representation of part of the world.
A low area of land formed between hills or mountains.
What is a Valley?
Explain why you think Rivers are important.
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An isthmus connects two larger areas of land.
Give an example.
Connecting North and South America
An example of a subcontinent would be....
What is India?
On a map: this represents the distance between 2 locations.
What is a scale?