Imaginary Lines
This imaginary line is located at 0* longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
These directions are referred to as Cardinal Directions.
What are north, south, east, and west?
This landform is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
On a globe or a world map, 3/4 of the earth is covered by this.
What is water?
A large body of water that is surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
This imaginary line is located at 0* latitude.
What is the equator?
The directions southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest are given this name.
What are intermediate directions?
An area of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
A person who studies the earth and its physical features.
What is a geographer?
A large body of salt water.
What is an ocean?
These imaginary lines create a grid on a map or globe.
What are latitude and longitude?
This is the southernmost continent.
What is Antarctica?
A narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger land masses.
What is an isthmus?
Weather that can be measured over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A body of water, smaller than a gulf, that is partly enclosed by land.
What is a bay?
Lines of latitude are also called this, as they are lines that will never meet.
What are parallels?
This ocean is located to the west of the United States.
What is the Pacific?
A chain of islands found in an ocean.
What is an archipelago?
Coastal plains, grasslands, and forests are all examples of this type of region.
What is vegetation?
A flooded coastal ecosystem between land and saltwater.
What is a salt marsh?
Lines of longitude are called this, as they run the same direction as the Prime Meridian.
What are meridians?
This ocean is completely in the northern hemisphere.
What is the Arctic?
A ring shaped coral island.
What is an atoll?
A type of map that shows number of people in an area.
What is population?
A narrow waterway that connects 2 larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?