Landforms
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Vocabulary
Maps
100
This is the highest kind of a landform.
What is a mountain?
100
A body of salt water that covers a large area.
What is the ocean?
100
A large, dry area of land.
What is a desert?
100
The study of Earth's surface and the ways people use it.
What is geography?
100
The imaginary line halfway between the North and South Pole, it divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
200
This is a landform that has water all around it.
What is an island?
200
A body of water with land on all sides.
What is a lake?
200
A large area of trees.
What is a forest?
200
A model of our planet.
What is a globe?
200
The largest land masses (There are 7- North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Antartica).
What are continents?
300
This is a landform that has water surrounding 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
A large stream of water that flows across the land.
What is a river?
300
Land that rises above the land around it.
What is a hill?
300
Half of a sphere (half of the Earth)
What is hemisphere?
300
A legend, explains the symbols used on a map.
What is the map key?
400
A landform that has steep sides that rise to a flat top.
What is a plateau?
400
Not a body of water: North, South, East, West
What are cardinal directions?
400
Low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
400
The location of a place in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
400
Compares a distance on the map to a distance in the real world, helps you find the real distance between places on a map.
What is map scale?
500
This is a word for flat land.
What is a plain?
500
Not a body of water: Directions between the cardinal directions: northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
500
Not a landform: A line that shows where a state or country ends.
What is border?
500
The exact location, can be found by using lines of latitude and longitude.
What is absolute location?
500
The direction marker, shows directions on a map or globe.
What is the compass rose?
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