This is the precise point where a place is located on Earth.
What is absolute location?
A place on a map compared to another.
What is relative location?
The imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian or longitude?
A series of more or less connected mountains ranged in a line.
What is a mountain range?
Located at 66 ½ degrees South of the Equator.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
This usually describes the area shown on a map and it also identifies the map's main topic.
What is a title?
What geographers use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth.
What is a global grid or longitude and latitude?
The pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
All the plants and trees in one area.
What is vegetation?
Flows down from mountains and makes its way to the sea.
What is a river?
Imaginary lines that run east and west around the globe.
What are lines of latitude?
The changes in shape, size, and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat map.
What is distortion?
What coal, iron, uranium, trees, plants, and petroleum are.
What are natural resources?
A piece of land that juts out from a continent into water.
What is a peninsula?
The type of trees that lose their leaves.
What is deciduous?
This is what tells you how the distances on the map compare to the actual distances on Earth.
What is scale?
This causes the changing of seasons throughout the year.
An area with one or more features that set it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
The largest of the seven continents.
What is Asia?
Shows directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
The nearly circular path that the Earth moves around the sun.
What is an orbit?
The two continents that are located entirely in the Western Hemisphere.
What is North America and South America?
A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Located at 23 ½ degrees North of the equator.
What is the Topic of Cancer?
Where symbols on a map are located.
What is a legend?