Vocab 1
imaginary line running east to west?
What is latitude
sphere that spins as it moves around the sun?
What is earth
List the 7 continents
Asia
Europe
NA
SA
Australia
Africa
Antartica
What is the largest island in the world?
What is Greenland.
What is the worlds tallest mountain?
Mount Everest
direction the sun rises
What is East
A longitudinal line?
What is a meridian
What are the four oceans of the world?
Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
Artic
What is a peninsula?
Land surrounded on three sides by water and connected on the fourth to land
What are the two longest rivers in Europe?
What are the Danube and the Rhine
imaginary pole around which the earth spins?
What is the axis
the end of the axis
What are the poles
What three physical features separate Asia from Europe?
Ural Mountains, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains
Give me an example of a peninsula?
Italy
Mount Krakatoa erupted in what country, sending ash into the atmosphere all over the world?
What is Indonesia
small box that shows what the symbols on a map mean?
What is a Legend
imaginary circle that passes through Greenwich, England?
What is the Prime Meridian
What continent are Mexico, Central America, and Canada in?
What is North America
What is a large area of land without any mountain ranges?
What is a plain
What is the longest river in Asia?
What is the Yangtze
horizontal bar on a map that cuts the earth in half?
What is the equator
Horizontal bar on a map that shows distance?
What is scale
Name three types of plains.
Steppe
Prairie
Savannah
What mountain erupted in AD 79 burying the Roman town of Pompeii?
Mount Vesuvius
What are the two most important flat projection maps?
The Robinson and Mercator