Terms to Know
Natural Disasters
Landforms
Map Skills
Etc.
100
Zero degree latitude line
What is the Equator?
100
Massive amounts of rain
What is a flood?
100
A body of water surrounded completely by land.
What is a lake?
100
North, South, East and West
What are cardinal directions?
100
Half of the earth
What is a hemisphere?
200
Zero degree longitude line
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Funnel cloud caused by a thunderstorm
What is a tornado?
200
A piece of land surrounded completely by water.
What is an island?
200
Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast
What are intermediate directions?
200
Country south of the United States
What is Mexico?
300
Lines that run parallel to the Equator
What is latitude?
300
A high wind storm over the ocean
What is a hurricane?
300
A rise in the earth's elevation coming to a peak
What is a mountain?
300
A box on a map that shows symbols and what they mean
What is a legend or key?
300
The continent where the United States is found
What is North America?
400
Lines that intersect at the North and South Poles
What is longitude?
400
Shift of plates on the earths surface causing it to shake
What is an earthquake?
400
A piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
400
A map that shows countries, states, capitals, and boundaries between places
What is a political map?
400
Ocean south of Asia and east of Africa
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
The projection shaped like a square or rectangle... inaccurately shows the North and South Poles, including Antarctica
What is the Mercator Projection?
500
Caused by underwater earthquakes or volcanos?
What is a tsunami?
500
A group of scattered islands
What is an archipelago?
500
Measurement bar used to measure and convert distances on a map
What is scale?
500
The continent southeast of Asia
What is Australia?
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