Vocabulary
a part
What is component?
The continent we are on right now
What is North America?
0 degrees Latitude
What is the equator?
A series of mountains like the Rockies or Himalayas
What is a mountain range?
GIS stands for
What is Geographic Information System?
study of Earth, its peoples, places, and environments
What is geography?
What is Antartica?
Part of a map that shows what the symbols mean
What is the key or legend?
Piece of land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
Mobile App that lets you see a 3D image of Earth and zoom in on any location
Materials used to produce crops or other products
What is a resource?
Ghana, Egypt, Morocco
What is Africa?
Part of a map that shows directions
What is a compass?
There are 7 of these large land masses
What are continents?
Two ways we use GPSs
Walking Directions
Car Directions
Tracking airplane flights
Monitoring the location of people
Average weather in a place over a long period of time
What is a climate?
Japan, China, India
What is Asia?
Part of the map that shows a ratio of distances
What is a scale?
The 4 (or 5) largest bodies of water
What are Oceans?
GPS stands for
What is Global Positioning System?
Shape of a ball or Earth
What is a sphere?
Spain, Italy, France
What is Europe?
0 Degrees Longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
A warm region with little vegetation, very dry
What is a desert?
A series of 31 of these in outer space allow GPS's to be so accurate
What are satellites?