Geography terms
Geography is fun
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?