Landforms
A landform that is surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
The smallest continent.
What is Australia?
The smallest ocean; surrounds the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The imaginary line circling the globe, equal in distance from the poles; 0o latitude.
What is the equator?
A body of water completely surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
A deep, narrow valley usually with steep sides and a river flowing through.
What is a canyon?
The largest continent.
What is Asia?
The largest ocean; extends from western Americas to eastern Asia & Australia.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The northernmost point on Earth.
What is the North Pole?
A large, natural stream which flows into a larger body of water.
What is a river?
A narrow piece of land projecting into the sea.
What is a cape?
The only continent located entirely in the southern hemisphere.
What is Australia?
The 2nd largest ocean; connects to all other oceans.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The distance north or south of the Equator; running in an east-west direction.
A steep fall or flow of water from a higher elevation.
What is a waterfall?
A flat-topped elevated landform.
What is a mesa?
The world's highest continent (highest average elevation above sea-level).
What is Antarctica?
The ocean extending from southern Asia to Antarctica.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The line of longitude that is 0o.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A very large body of water that covers 3/4 of the earth's surface.
What is an ocean?
A narrow strip of land that connects 2 large land masses & separates 2 bodies of water.
What is an isthmus?
The only continent without a desert.
What is Europe?
Ocean officially added in the year 1999 by the NOAA.
What is the Southern Ocean?
The half of the Earth that is east of the 180o longitude and west of the Prime Meridian.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
Part of the ocean that extends into land.
What is a gulf?