Landforms and Waterways
A body of salt water that reaches into the land and is usually smaller than a gulf.
What is a bay?
Also known as meridians, these lines run vertically from north to south. They are labeled east and west.
What are longitude lines?
Where something is found on Earth. There are two types -- relative and absolute.
What is location?
The average typical weather of a particular location over a long period of time
What is climate?
This unlocks the map for you. It explains the symbols, colors, and lines on a map.
What is a key?
Land built up by deposits of sand and silt at the mouth of some rivers.
What is a delta?
These horizontal lines start at the equator and run east to west. They are labeled north and south.
What are latitude lines?
When places are near to each other, they share the same features and characteristics. This area would be known as...
What is region?
When a location is near the sea, it can have a cooling effect during times of hot weather and a warming effect during times of cold weather. What is this effect called?
What is Maritime Effect?
The type of map that shows more specialized information.
What is a thematic map?
A group or chain of islands clustered together
What is an archipelago?
On the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun shines directly overhead of this line of latitude, creating the season of summer.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The features that help define an area, such as “The Mile High City” or “Dutch Country.” Often impacted by the location and how the people live.
What is place?
Height above sea level
What is altitude?
The relationship between distances on a map and on Earth.
What is scale?
A large body of water surrounded by land
What is a lake?
This meridian starts at 0 degrees, is the starting point for measuring longitude, and runs through Greenwich, England?
What is the Prime Meridian?
How humans interact with the world around them.
What is human-environment interaction?
When a body of water warms certain areas, such as when the Gulf Stream warms areas of Western Europe.
What are ocean currents?
To convert the round Earth to a map, geographers use this.
What is a map projection?
A piece of land that extends into a body of water and is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
The latitude line that shows the northernmost extent of the sun at 661/2 degrees north, is called this.
What is the Arctic Circle?
People, products, and ideas do this when they migrate or transfer from one place to another.
What is movement?
A material that can be used to produce crops or other products
What is a natural resource?
More accurate than maps, these round items show the Earth's surface but in less detail than maps.
What are globes?