Latitude and Longitude
The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator
What is Latitude?
A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level
What is a mountain?
A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.
What is a river?
Maps designed to show governmental boundaries.
What is a political map?
The branch of geography dealing with natural features and processes.
What is a physical geography?
The angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England
What is Longitude?
A low area of land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
Maps designed to show landforms like deserts or mountains.
What is a physical map?
The branch of geography dealing with how human activity affects or is influenced by the earth's surface.
What is human geography?
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A piece of land surrounded by water.
What is an island?
A very large expanse of sea.
What is an ocean?
Gives you the information needed for the map to make sense.
What is a key or legend?
The beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time
What is culture?
A planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides
What is a gulf?
Pictures or icons that represent different things on the map.
What is a symbol?
The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.
What is the environment?
The region between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Also a great place to vacation in the sun.
What is the tropics?
An area of relatively level high ground.
What is a plateau?
A narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water
What is a strait?
The relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground
What is a map scale?
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is geography?