Geography terms
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary II
Maps and more
100
What are the lines?
Longitude
100
A line connecting all points along the same latitude.
What is parallel?
100
Tropical grasslands with scattered vegetation primarily located on the African continent.
What is Savannah?
100
_______ is the largest island of the world.
What is Greenland?
100
The white dot is____
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
200
There are this many ___continents on the planet.
What is 7.
200
This is a vast and treeless region located in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the world such as Greenland?
What is tundra?
200
The study of the Earth is_______________
What is geography?
200
a landform or mountain that through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapour, and gas erupt from the earth's crust
What is a volcano?
200
A_________________ is any of the world's main continuous expanses of land.
What is Continent?
300
This a large area of flat and relatively high ground.
What is a plateau.
300
This is the ____________ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
300
0 degrees latitude line is called....
Equator
300
D is this river
What is a Ob
300
What are the biggest mountains in the world?
400
What is this line?
What is prime meridian
400
Name this river____.
What is the Amazon?
400
Used to measure temperature, latitude, and longitude
Degrees
400
A picture on a map that shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.
What is a compass rose
400
This river is C
What is the Nile?
500
What are these lines?
What is latitude?
500
Largest continent of world is_______________
Second largest is ___________________
What is Asia?
What is Africa?
500
this map shows the height and steepness of land using contour lines, useful for understanding elevation, especially when hiking
topographic map
500
A line connecting all points of the same latitude is called a ____.
What is a parallel.
500
This map shows which country has ownership and authority of a country.
What is a political map?