Vocabulary
What do we call the directions of north, south, east and west?
What is cardinal directions?
the study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them
You are travelling from Kentucky to Colorado on your family trip. What direction would you have to travel?
What is west?
how far a place on Earth is from an imaginary line called the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees
What is lines of longitude?
Which ocean borders the East Coast of the US?
a sphere that shows a map of the Earth's features
What is the globe?
an instrument (tool) for finding directions
What is a compass?
You have to pick up your brother from college in Massachusetts. If you live in Ohio what direction are you travelling to get him?
How far a place on Earth is from the equator, measured in degrees
What is latitude?
What state is bordered by Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming?
What is Colorado?
an imaginary line on Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole that divides the Earth in half, zero degrees latitude
what is the equator?
the unique location of a place on Earth's surface
What is the absolute location?
What is south to Tennessee and east to North Carolina?
The 7 continents are North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Africa... name the other two.
What are Antarctica and Australia?
Which of the following states does NOT border the Great Lakes?
A. Ohio D. Illinois
B. Michigan
C. Iowa
What is Iowa?
directions halfway between cardinal directions: northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast
What are intermediate directions?
an area with common features that set it apart from other areas
What is a region?
What is southeast?
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Pierre is the capital of what U.S. state?
What is Pierre? (It has been the state capital since South Dakota gained statehood on November 2, 1889)
shows the relationship between distance on a map and distance on the ground
What is scale?
An imaginary line on Earth's surface from which longitude is determined, zero degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?
If you are in Texas, what state would you travel through if you are travelling one state west?
What is New Mexico?
What is the capital city of Romania? It is the largest city in the country. The city has a population of 1.9 million people.
What is Bucharest?
Lake Okeechobee, the second largest freshwater lake in the continental United States, it is quite shallow with an average depth of only 9 feet is in what state?
What is Florida?