Using a Map
The line the cuts the earth into North and South
What is the equator?
An area with little to no rain
What is a desert?
A body of water that moves from one place to the end
What is a river?
A large area of land covered with trees
What is a forest?
One of earth's largest bodies of water
What is an ocean?
The lines that run east/west and north/south that help locate different places (2 vocabulary terms)
What is Latitude and Longitude?
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides
What is a canyon?
a sheltered place along a shoreline
What is a harbor?
A body of water that is completely surrounded by land
What is a lake?
a piece of land surrounded by water
What is an island?
the relationship between the portion of the earth being studied and earth as a whole
What is scale?
A small area of land that is higher than the land around it
What is a hill?
Where land meets the sea
What is a coastline?
an area of land that is much higher than the land around it
What is a mountain?
A thin strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land that is surrounded by water on two sides
The grid that uses letters and numbers
What is the alphanumeric grid?
an area of high, flat land
What is a plateau?
Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline
What is a gulf?
lower land between hills or mountains
What is a valley?
A two dimensional representation of a place
What is a map?
The vertical line that is 0 degrees
What is the Prime Meridian?
A group of islands
What is an archipelago?
A salty body of water that is smaller than an ocean
What is a sea?
the drawing on the map that shows the cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
A natural feature of Earth's surface
What is a landform?