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Continents & Oceans
Vocabulary
Latitude
Longitude
Seasons
100
What continent is also an island?
Australia
100
What is half a sphere?
Hemisphere
100
What is the latitude line that runs east and west and divides the Earth into the northern and southern hemisphere?
Equator
100
Where do the longitude lines meet?
North and South Poles
100
What are the two parts of climate
Temperature and precipitation
200
What continent is located in all 4 hemispheres?
Africa
200
What is a pointer for directions found on a map?
Compass Rose
200
What is the latitude line found at 23 degrees north?
Tropic of Cancer
200
What direction do the longitude lines run?
North and South
200
What is the day in September that is equal amounts of sunlight and darkness?
Autumn Euqinox
300
What ocean is found on the western coast of the United States?
Pacific
300
What is a map that shows cities, states and borders?
Political map
300
What is the latitude line that is found at 66 degrees south?
Antarctic Circle
300
What is the longitude line that divides the Earth into the eastern and western hemispheres?
Prime Meridian
300
Summer Solstice
What is the name of the day that has the MOST hours of sunlight?
400
Name the 7 continents?
Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, South American
400
What allows you to estimate distances on Earth?
Scale
400
True / False Latitude lines meet at the poles.
False
400
What is the other name for the longitude line found at 180 degrees?
The International Date Line
400
What is the first day of spring called?
Spring Equinox
500
Name the 4 oceans.
Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean
500
What is the temperature and precipitation of an area on a particular day?
Weather
500
What is another name for latitude lines?
Parallels
500
What is another name for longitude lines?
Meridians
500
How many days does it take for the earth to rotate around the sun?
356 1/4