World Biomes
The northern part of Africa is this type of environment.
What is a dry desert?
A round model of Earth.
What is a globe?
__________ is the latitude line at 0o and splits Earth into North and South Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Mexico, Costa Rica, and Honduras.
What is North America?
This country is so big, it spans two continents: Europe and Asia.
What is Russia?
North America has 5 major mountainous regions/mountain ranges. They are the Rocky Mountains, the Western Sierra Madre, the Eastern Sierra Madre, the Southern Sierra Madre, and this mountain range, which extends into Maine.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Regions of Earth that have the same standard time.
The Prime Meridian measures 0o __________ and, similar to the Equator, it splits Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is longitude?
Chad, Madagascar, and Congo.
What is Africa?
The Indian Subcontinent has this number of countries on it.
What is 6?
Antarctica is the only continent that has one biome, which is called _____.
What is a tundra/cold desert?
This type of map shows countries, states, and borders.
What are political maps?
This line of latitude is found at 66.5 °N.
What is the Arctic Circle?
Uruguay, Bolivia, and Ecuador.
What is South America?
Which country is north of Morocco and is only 8 miles across the Mediterranean Sea?
What is Spain?
This continent has the largest amount of tropical rainforests in the world.
What is South America?
This map projection keeps direction accurate but distorts size near the poles.
What is the Mercator Projection?
This city is found near 44° N, 69° W.
What is Augusta, ME?
India, Vietnam, and Russia.
What is Asia?
How far ahead is Tokyo from London?
What is 9 hours?
_______ has the most types of biomes/climates. It has tundras, coniferous forests, temperate forests, tropical forests, grasslands, and deserts.
What is North America?
This map projection shows accurate distances from certain points.
What is an Equidistant Projection?
The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is known for rainforests and warm temperatures.
What are the Tropics?
Romania, Portugal, and Greece.
What is Europe?
______ is the only continent on Earth crossed by both the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is Africa?