The study of Earth and the way people live on it and use it.
What is geography?
100
An imaginary line, or parallel, measuring distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
100
The four main points of the compass. Hint:______directions
What are cardinal directions?
100
A guide telling you what each symbol on a map stands for.
What is a map key?
100
A physical map that uses colors to show the elevation of land above sea level.
What is an elevation map?
200
One of Earth's seven large bodies of land.
What is a continent?
200
A line of latitude.
What is a parallel?
200
Directions halfway between two cardinal directions. Hint: _________directions
What are intermediate directions?
200
The largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
200
A map that indicates cities, highways, and points of interest and shows how to get from one place to another.
What is a road map?
300
One of Earth's four large bodies of water
What is an ocean?
300
An imaginary line, or meridian, measuring east or west of the prime meridian. Hint: longitude or latitude
What is longitude?
300
A drawing that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
300
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
A map that shows information about the past or where past events took place.
What is a historical map?
400
One half of a sphere or globe. Earth can be divided into four of these.
What is a hemisphere?
400
The smallest continent in the world.
What is Australia/Oceania?
400
A guide that explains the relationship between real distances on Earth and distances on a map.
What is a map scale?
400
A map that highlights Earth's natural features.
What is a physical map?
400
Another term for this is "a parallel." Hint: longitude or latitude
What is a latitude?
500
An imaginary line encircling Earth halfway between the North and South Pole.
What is the equator?
500
The line of longitude labeled 0 degrees longitude. It divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemisphere and crosses Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian?
500
This Hemisphere consists of the Americas, the western portions of Europe and Africa, the extreme eastern tip of Russia, numerous territories in Oceania, and a portion of Antarctica.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
500
The number of countries in North America. Hint: More than 5, less than 25.