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The study of Earth and the way people live on it and use it.
What is geography?
100
An imaginary line measuring distance north or south of the equator.
What is longitude?
100
The four main points of the compass.
What are cardinal directions? North, South, East, West
100
A guide telling you what each symbol on a map stands for.
What is a map key
100
a physical feature on Earth’s surface such as a mountain or a plain
What is a landform
200
One of Earth's seven large bodies of land.
What is a continent?
200
a part of Earth’s surface including landmasses and bodies of water
What are physical features
200
Directions halfway between two cardinal directions. Hint: _________directions
What are intermediate directions?
200
The largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia
200
The country located North of the United States
What is Canada
300
5 large bodies of water on the earth are called...
What are oceans?
300
An imaginary line measuring east or west around the earth
What is latitude?
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
the organization that makes the laws in a country, state, or community and has the power to enforce them
What is government
400
One half of a sphere or globe. Earth can be divided into four of these.
What is a hemisphere?
400
Name the intermediate directions
What are: Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
400
Almost three-fourths of Earth’s surface is covered by
What is water
400
A map that highlights Earth's natural features.
What is a physical map?
400
The ocean that is along the West coast of the United States
What is the Pacific Ocean
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
What is located at 0° latitude?
What is the Equator
500
Name three possible physical features on a map
answers vary: mountains, valleys, plains, rivers, oceans,
500
There are seven of these on Earth.
What is a continent?