All About Me
What planet do you live on?
Earth
How many continents are there?
Seven (7)
Give me one difference between a map and a globe.
A map is flat. A globe is round.
What is a hemisphere?
Half a sphere or half of the Earth
What landform is a large mound of earth, usually larger than 2,000 feet? It has peaks.
Mountain
What city do you live in?
Houston
How many oceans are there?
Five (5)
What shape is the Earth?
a sphere
Name the four hemispheres.
Northern, Southern, Western, Eastern
What landform has land completely surrounded by water?
island
What continent do you live on?
North America
What continent is north of Africa?
Europe
What are the cardinal directions?
North, East, South, West
What is the imaginary that divides the earth like a belt?
Equator
What landform is surrounded by water on three sides? An example is Florida.
peninsula
What country do you live in?
The United States of America
What is the third largest continent?
North America
What is the small drawing on a map that shows the cardinal directions?
Compass Rose
What are the imaginary lines that run north to south?
longitude lines
What landforms are very dry areas of the world. The Sahara in Africa is an example.
deserts
What state do you live in?
Texas
What two oceans touch the continental United States?
Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
What are the intermediate directions?
northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest
What are the imaginary lines that run east to west?
latitude lines
What is a major body of water that covers large parts of the Earth called?
An ocean