Landforms
Potpourri
Maps
Terms
Grab Bag
100
The landform that is sometimes covered with trees and climbs to a high elevation
What is a mountain
100
A type of map that shows landforms and water features
What is a physical map?
100
It measures distance on a map
What is scale?
100
A body of land that juts into a lake or ocean and surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
100
Plants, land, water, and animals are examples
What is physical geography?
200
Where a river empties into a larger body of water
What is the mouth?
200
The type of map that shows the boundaries of countries
What is a political map?
200
It is represented by a star on a map
What is capitol?
200
A narrow stretch of water that joins two larger bodies of water
What is a strait?
300
It lies off the coast of a continent
What is a plateau
300
East or west of the prime meridian
What is longitude?
300
It shows the symbols you might see on a map
What is legend or a key?
300
Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline
What is a gulf?
300
A place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water
What is the mouth?
400
Another name for plateau
What is continental shelf?
400
The study of people; where and how they live, how they change and are influenced by their environment
What is human geography or human characteristics?
400
It points to direction like N, S, E, W, and NW, NE, SW, and SE
What is a compass rose?
400
A flat or rolling land at a high elevation
What is a plateau?
400
Area of level land, usually at a low elevation and often covered in grass
What is a plain?
500
Two more landforms
What is river and forest?
500
It circles the middle of the earth
What is the equator?
500
The intermediate directions
What is NW, NE, SW, and SE?
500
It is zero degrees longitude and divides the earth into hemispheres
What is the prime meridian?
500
The continents
What are: Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, North America, and South America?
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