Maps and Globes
Name of the hemisphere we live in
What is Western Hemisphere
What types of landforms may be shown on a diagram?
What is mountains and rivers?
Why are lines of latitude and longitude important?
What is to help identify exact locations on Earth?
Which regions are the four main regions of the Western Hemisphere?
What is North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America ?
How do the environment and natural resources of an area influence people?
What is They affect where people settle and how the land is used?
Which tool would a geographer use to find specific locations?
What is a map?
What do aerial photographs show?
What is natural and human-made physical features?
What are our seven continents?
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
The region from Mexico through Central America is
What is Mesoamerica?
How does using natural resources, such as oil, affect the land and the environment?
What is Removing resources can cause air and water pollution and disturb habitats for plants and animals. ?
What is one responsibility of a cartographer?
What is deciding what details to include on maps and globes?/ create maps?
What are resources called that come from the Earth?
What is natural resources?
The pattern of weather over a period of time
What is climate?
Which continents are located in the Western Hemisphere?
What is North America and South America?
What is one effect of human activity on the environment?
What is Human activity can have positive and negative effects on the environment?
The imaginary lines that run East to West and North to South?
What is Latitude Lines and Longitutde Lines?
What do we put on a diagram or a picture to show us direction?
What is a compass?
The United States has 50 what?
What is states?
The Caribbean region is considered to be a ____ climate
What is tropical rainforest?
What is one way building a dam affects the land and benefits people?
What is it increases crop production by storing water for irrigation?
The Equator is a ____ line and the Prime Meridian is a ______ line.
What is latitude and longitude?
What do physical maps show us?
What is natural resources, climate, precipitation, landforms, and bodies of water?
The area known for a specific geographic feature (ex: finger lakes)
What is region?
What is a word for a dry climate?
What is Arid?
When we cut down forests what is that called?
What is deforestation?