Geography
Maps
Ohio Facts
Vocabulary
Vocab Pt 2
100

These are the imaginary lines we use to give our exact location on the earth.

Latitude and longitude lines

100

This shows the relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the earth. 

Map scale

100

Name all 5 states that border Ohio

Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, and Indiana.

100

Land that is drained by a river and the river’s tributaries. 

River basin

100

This describes the air at a certain time and place.

Weather

200

These are the imaginary lines that run up and down on a globe. 

Longitude

200

This is a circle showing the principal directions printed on a map or chart.

Compass rose

200

This is created when a glacier melts and drops soil and rocks that it picked up hundreds of miles away. 

Till 

200

These types of resources are able to replenish itself naturally over a span of time.

Renewable
200

This describes a pattern of weather that occurs in a place year after year.

Climate

300

These are the imaginary lines that run from side to side on a globe

Latitude 

300

North, south, east, and west are all considered this kind of directions.

Cardinal directions
300

This is any substance (such as a chemical) that makes the air, water, or soil dirty.

Pollution

300

These types of resources are natural substances that are not replenished with the speed at which they are consumed. 

Nonrenewable resources

300

This is a thick, moving sheet of ice. Ohio was once covered in one.

Glacier

400

This line separates the globe in half along a latitude line.

Equator

400

Northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest are considered these kind of directions.

Intermediate 

400

This caused the grooves in the rocks of Kelleys Island. 

Glacier 

400

This lake is one of the five great lakes. You can find it in northern Ohio.

Lake Erie

400

The place where a river begins

Source

500

This line separates the globe in half along a longitude line.

Prime Meridian 

500

This is a list of symbols that appear on the map. 

A key or legend

500

This is a line of small hills that run east to west across our state. Rivers of the north flow into Lake Erie where rivers on the south flow into the Ohio River.

The Ohio Divide

500

A type of map that shows land height

Elevation map

500

Hills, plains, plateaus, and other land shapes

Landforms

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