When you're up
you're up
you're up
The angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator
What is Latitude?
A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level with steep slopes and peaks
What is a mountain?
What is the primary source of energy on Earth?
the sun
Maps designed to show governmental boundaries.
What is a political map?
The layers of the inside of the Earth.
What are inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
The angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England
What is Longitude?
What is a giant ocean wave called?
a tsunami
They are 2 types of locations that geographers use as reference points.
What are absolute and relative location?
True or False: Maps are more accurate than globes.
False
What is global warming?
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.
What is a river?
The Earth's tilt toward the sun or away from it (whether the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn is closer to the sun) is why we have them.
What are seasons?
Gives you the information needed for the map to make sense.
What is a key or legend?
What is the main reasion people choose to settle in one area over another area?
resources
Earth's zero line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A regional variety of a language with unique features, such as vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation
What is dialect?
This is what GPS stands for.
What is Global Positioning System?
One complete trip around the sun for the Earth.
What is a revolution?
The line of latitude is approximately 23.5 degrees North of the Equator.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
An area of high ground, raised up, with a flat (level) surface
What is a plateau?
The process by which nations, cultures, and economies become integrated, or mixed.
What is globalization?
The relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground
What is a map scale?
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is geography?