Maps
Equator
The Earth
Interesting People
Hodgepodge
100
Shows boundaries between countries or states.
What is a Political Map
100
An imaginary, horizontal line.
What kind of line is the equator?
100
a large land mass
What is a continent?
100
Abby Sunderland
Who is a 16 year old girl that wanted to be the youngest person to sail around the world, nonstop?
100
Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, North America, South America
What are the 7 continents?
200
Shows landforms or bodies of water
What is a physical map?
200
What two hemispheres does the equator separate?
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
200
The study of Earth's features
What is Geography?
200
Marie Tharp
Who is a woman created maps of the ocean floor?
200
List three things that might be found on a map legend.
What are: roads, schools, forests, mountains, rivers, oceans...
300
This shows distances, often in miles or kilometers
What is a map scale?
300
The equator is at this latitude
What is 0 degrees latitude?
300
70% of the Earth is covered with this
What is water?
300
Dylan Konik
Who is Ms. Herbertson's geography studying son?
300
Name three large oceans-
What are- Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic
400
Shows directions like North, South, East or West
What is a compass rose?
400
This country in South America is named after the Equator
What is Ecuador?
400
What shape is the Earth more like- a map or a globe?
What is a globe?
400
Alexander von Humboldt
What is a German man that wrote the book Kosmos including all that was known about the Earth at that time?
400
If someone asks you to explain what direction you are traveling, what part of the map would you use?
What is the compass rose?
500
This a someone that makes maps
What is a cartographer?
500
The climate at the equator is what?
What is hot and sunny?
500
True or false- Only land on Earth is mapped.
What is false? Oceans are also mapped.
500
Future Geographers
What is any 5th grader in this class!?
500
The third largest continent
What is North America?
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