Continents
Central America is part of this continent.
What is North America?
This vocabulary word means the height above sea level.
What is elevation?
These are the two types of plains?
What is coastal and interior?
These are the lines that run vertically between the north and south pole.
What are the meridians?
These lines run east to west between the north and south pole.
What are the parallels?
This is the smallest continent and is also a country.
What is Australia?
This vocabulary word is the difference in elevation in a region. It can be described as high or low.
What is relief?
This landscape of high relief that rises over 600 meters.
What are mountains?
The most important meridian at 0o
What is the Prime Meridian?
This type of projection map shows the right shape but the wrong size.
What is a Mercator?
This landmass is millions of km2, has great heights, and has a shield.
What is a continent?
This vocabulary word means the shape of the earth's crust.
What is topography?
This type of mountain is formed by land pushed up by magma.
What is a dome?
The distance east and west of the Prime Meridian is measured in degrees of _____________
What is longitude?
Distance that measures the north and south of the equator is in degrees of ___________
What is Latitude?
This is the coldest continent on earth and was first explored in 1901.
What is Antarctica?
The landscape which has high elevation but low relief.
What is a plateau?
What is Everest and the Himalayas?
This line is opposite the Prime Meridian and was created to keep days accurate.
What is the International Date Line?
This type of map uses lines that show the elevation and shape of land.
What is topographic?
What is Canada?
The landscape that doesn't rise far above sea level.
What is a plain?
This type of mountain is formed when plates collide.
What is folded?
If it is 6:00 pm in Seattle, what time is it in New York City?
What is 9:00 pm?
This color is used to water on topographic maps.
What is blue?