Geo Basics
2 answers - This map shows human made boundaries. This map shows God made features like landforms and elevation.
What is a political map and what is a physical map?
2 answers - This region in Asia is made up of a mainland peninsula and many archipelagos. Closely grouped islands are called ________.
What is Southeast Asia and archipelagos?
A plateau covers a large portion of this continent in which basins cut through to collect water
What is Africa?
2 answers -The world's longest river and continent location
What is Nile River and Africa?
Mountains that are considered the dividing line between Europe and Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
The movement of people from one location to another
What is the migration?
2 answers - Least populated and most populated continents
What are Antarctica and Asia?
2 answers - This region (N, S, E, or W) of Europe has climate that is mild, like Southern California
What is Southern Europe and Mediterranean climate?
This river is the longest in South America and supports a rainforest
What is the Amazon?
2 answers - The tallest mountain range and the single highest peak in the world
What are the Himalayas and Mount Everest?
The study of distribution & interaction of physical and human features on earth
What is geography?
Fertile plain that provided agriculture, but left occupants open to invaders
What is the Northern European Plain?
2 answers - Original nation that colonized much of Oceania, as well as New Zealand and Australia. Native people group to Australia.
What is the United Kingdom (originally called Great Britain) and the Aboriginal?
Ocean between Africa and South/Southeast Asia
What is Indian?
2 answers - World's largest non-polar desert and continent of location.
What is Sahara and Africa?
Lines of _______ are imaginary lines from pole to pole (east and west) and lines of ___________ from north to south, parallel to equator
What is longitude and latitude?
This country is the largest, is located on two continents, and has/had great influence
What is Russia?
3 answers - Name of Canada's legislature (governing body), head of government, and political units (13 of these)
What are the Parliament, Prime Minister and provinces?
3 answers - Ocean names: between N. America and Asia, between N. America and Europe/Africa AND between Africa and Asia/Australia
What are Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans?
This mountain is Africa's tallest and is a dormant volcano
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This is a way to describe location using exact latitude & longitude
What is absolute?
This type of map projection is usually in a textbook
What is Robinson?
This South American country was colonized by Portugal and therefore the dominant language is Portuguese
What is Brazil?
River in South Asia that is both sacred and polluted
What is the Ganges River?
2 answers - This mountain range is the largest in South America. This mountain range runs the length of North America.
What are the Andes Mountains and the Rockies Mountains?