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100
This direction points down on a map.
What is south?
100
This is the continent where we live.
What is North America?
100
The average height of the water in the oceans.
What is sea level?
100
This is a box containing symbols and words to help understand a map.
What is a legend or key?
100
These imaginary lines run east and west on a globe.
What is lines of latitude?
200
This tells your distance from the equator and your direction north or south.
What is latitude?
200
What we call the part of the land, earth's crust that we can walk on?
What is the lithosphere?
200
This ocean covers the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
200
This type of book contains maps and other important facts and information.
What is an atlas?
200
These imaginary lines run north and south on a globe.
What is lines of longitude?
300
This tells you your distance from the prime meridian and your direction east or west.
What is longitude?
300
What makes the continents move
What are tectonic plates?
300
The crust found in the oceans.
What is oceanic crust?
300
What is a contour line?
A special type of line that connects all points of the same elevation.
300
The equator is at this degree latitude.
What is 0 degrees?
400
Greenwich, England
Where is the prime meridian located?
400
The partially melted liquid in the upper mantle where the tectonic plates float
What is the asthenosphere?
400
Oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams belong to this outer sphere of Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
400
The type of map that shows elevation and the shape of landmasses on the Earth
What is a topographic map?
400
This imaginary line is at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Polaris (The North Star)
What can you use to find your latitude in the Northern Hemisphere?
500
These are all seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
500
This ocean is south of Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
The system used to determine where you are, locate you on a map using latitude and longitude.
What is a coordinate system?
500
What is the Moho?
What is the boundary layer between the Earth's crust and mantle?