Continents
This continent has the largest landmass and population.
What is Asia?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The Equator is at this degree of latitude.
What is 0 degrees?
The imaginary line at 0 degrees latitude that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This theme is about how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
What is Movement?
This is the smallest continent by land area.
What is Australia?
This ocean borders the east coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
To remember that lines of latitude run east to west, you can think of them as the __________ on a ladder.
What are rungs?
This theme groups places that have something in common.
What is Region?
This continent is home to the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert.
What is Africa?
This ocean is located mostly around the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The imaginary lines that help us measure distances north or south of the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
This word helps us remember the world’s oceans in order from largest to smallest.
What is PAISA?
This theme describes how people adapt to and change their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This continent is completely located in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
What is North America?
This ocean lies between Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The Prime Meridian is at this degree of longitude.
What is 0 degrees?
The system of lines used to find exact locations on Earth is called a __________ system.
What is a grid?
This theme includes physical and human characteristics of a place.
What is Place?
This continent is known for having the most countries.
What is Africa?
This ocean is found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere and surrounds Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
Lines of longitude are also known as these.
What are meridians?
The tool that shows directions (north, south, east, west) on a map is called a __________.
What is a compass rose?
This theme answers the question “Where is it?”
What is Location?