This major line of latitude divides the globe into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
100
What continent is in only the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
What is Europe?
100
The direction you would travel if you were to go from California to Washington.
What is north?
100
When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is summer?
200
This state borders the Pacific Ocean and is bordered by four U.S. states.
What is Oregon?
200
North America is found is this hemisphere.
What is the Northwestern Hemisphere?
200
These two continents are completely located in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Australia and Antarctica?
200
If you were in Kansas and wanted to travel to Maine, you would have to travel in this direction.
What is northeast?
200
If a region is located close to the equator then the climate will most likely be _____?
What is hot?
300
This is the smallest state in the U.S. and one of the originial 13 English colonies.
What is Rhode Island?
300
The name of the furthest point south latitude on the globe.
What is the South Pole?
300
This ocean can be found between Africa, Asia, and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
The direction you would you travel if you were to go from Antarctica to Asia.
What is northeast?
300
This type of climate, also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation, or at most a very scanty shrub.
What is a desert climate?
400
This state was first settled by the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon while he was searching for the “Fountain of Youth,” a fabled water source that was said to bring eternal youth.
What is Florida?
400
This major line of longitude divides the globe into the Eastern and Western hemisphere. It runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Iran, a country that borders both the Caspian Sea and Persian Gult is located on this continent.
What is Asia?
400
The direction you would travel to go from Asia to South America?
What is southwest?
400
Between Mt. Whitney and Mt. McKinley, this would be the colder summit.
What is Mt. McKinley? (also known as Denali)
500
This state borders Texas and Mexico.
What is New Mexico?
500
Lines of longitude are also known as this.
What are meridians?
500
The Mariana Trench, a deep-sea trench in the sea floor, is located in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
If you were in Alaska and wanted to travel to Russia, you would need to travel in this direction.