What is a piece of land completely surrounded by water?
island
100
What is a word that means "having to do with water or the ocean"? This is also a type of climate often found along coasts.
marine
100
What causes the seasons?
the tilt of the earth on its axis
100
What is a large area defined by common geographical or cultural characteristics.
a region
200
What part of a map tells direction?
compass rose
200
What is a finger of land that extends out into a body of water and is surrounded by water on three sides?
peninsula
200
All maps have some of this to a large or small degree.
distortion (It's impossible to represent the 3-D surface of a sphere (the earth) on a flat 2-D surface (a map) with 100% accuracy)
200
What is the imaginary line running through the center of the earth connecting the north and south poles?
earth's axis
200
What type of map shows a specific thing such as population density, migration routes, land use or climate zones... there are thousand of different possibilities and they are all called _________________ maps.
thematic (each has a specific theme or topic)
300
What part of a map tells what the map's symbols mean?
key or legend
300
What do we call an area or landform that has very little precipitation? These are usually hot by day and cold at night, but could also be very cold by day.
desert (very dry or "arid"; Antarctica is technically the world's largest desert because it rarely snows there)
300
This type of location compares the location of something compared to the location of another thing.
relative location (examples: Michigan is north of Ohio and is surrounded by lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior. Indiana is west of Ohio and east of Illinois.)
300
When it's winter in Michigan what season is it in South Africa?
summer (the northern and southern hemispheres have opposite seasons from each other)
300
These come in a pair and one always come first.
Degrees of latitude and longitude are used in coordinate pairs to describe absolute location. Latitude always comes first!
400
What tells the location of any place on the map north or south of the equator?
parallels of latitude
400
What do we call a string of islands?
archipelago (example: the Hawaiian islands are a small archipelago)
400
Africa is in the northern, southern, eastern, and western _______________________ .
hemispheres (Africa is the only continent that is in all four hemispheres!)
400
How many degrees is the earth tilted on its axis?
23.5 degrees
400
What units are used to measure latitude and longitude?
degrees (and smaller units such as minutes and seconds; there are 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute)
500
What tells the location of any place on the map east or west of the prime meridian?
meridians of longitude
500
What is a triangular area of flat land where a river slowly empties out into a lake, ocean or sea and deposits mud and silt?
delta (example: the Mississipi or Nile River deltas)
500
Where will the sun be directly overhead at noon twice each year?
in the tropics and along the equator (between the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south)
500
The sun will never be directly overhead at noon in these zones.
temperate and polar zones (ie, everywhere except the tropics)