Vocab
What is a Continent?
Any of the worlds main continuous expanses of land.
What are the seven Continets?
North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, Antarctica
What is a Compass Rose?
A compass rose shows cardinal and intermediate directions.
What do Geographers do?
Geographers study the physical and social things about Earth.
What is the Equator?
An imaginary line of reference that runs at 0 degree latitude.
A map title tells the reader what the map is about.
What is Absolute Location?
The exact place on Earth where a location can be found.
Why is a Compass Rose important?
It points us in the right directions when reading a map.
What does a Historian do?
A historian does research, analyzes and interprets history.
What is a Social Science?
A social scientist studies human interactions.
What is a Map Scale?
A map scale shows units of distance on a map
What is Relative Location?
Describes the position of a place based on its relation to another place.
What are Cardinal Directions?
North, South, East, West
What does an Archaeologist do?
An archaeologist studies past societies.
In what directions do parallels of latitude run?
They run parallel to the Equator.
What is a Map Key?
A map key/map legend explains the meaning of the symbols on a map.
What continent is next to Europe?
Asia.
What saying did Ms. Gonzalez teach you to remember Cardinal Directions?
Never eat soggy waffles
What does an Archaeologist dig up?
Fossils.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The Prime Meridian separates the Western and Eastern Hemisphere.
What is Distortion?
The change in shape, size and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat map
What profession digs up dinosaur bones?
An archaeologist.
What are Intermediate Directions?
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest
What do Paleontologist do?
Paleontologist study dinosaurs.
Where is the Prime Meridian located?
It is located 0 degrees longitude.