Continents
Oceans
Hemispheres
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
This continentis made up of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is North America?
100
This ocean separates North America from Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
Europe is located only in this hemisphere.
What is the northern hemisphere?
100
This word means a large mass of land.
What is continent?
100
The pictures in a map key are known by this name.
What are symbols?
200
This continent is nicknamed the "island continent".
What is Australia?
200
This ocean surrounds the north pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
200
Australia is in this hemisphere below the equator.
What is the southern hemisphere?
200
The imaginary line that divides the world into the northern and southern hemispheres is named this.
What is the equator?
200
These are cardinal directions.
What are north, south, east, and west?
300
No one lives on this continent permanently.
What is Antarctica?
300
On a flat map, it looks like there are two oceans with the same name.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
Parts of South America are in these two hemispheres.
What are northern and southern?
300
The lines on a globe that are parallel to the equator are named this.
What are lines of latitude?
300
This is used to show directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
400
This continent is connected to Asia by an area known as the Middle East.
What is Africa?
400
This ocean is between Africa and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
These are the four hemispheres of the world.
What are northern, southern, eastern, and western?
400
This imaginary line divides the world into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
400
These are two types of features shown on a map.
What are natural and cultural?
500
Parts of this continent are in all four hemispheres.
What is Africa?
500
This is the newest ocean to be named.
What is the Southern Ocean?
500
In the word hemisphere, "hemi" means this.
What is half?
500
These lines on a globe run from the north pole to the south pole.
What are lines of longitude?
500
This is used to measure distance on a map.
What is the map scale?