Continents
What is a continent?
A continent is one of Earth’s seven main divisions of land.
What are oceans?
The ocean is a continuous body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
A landform is any natural geographic feature that can be found on the earth’s surface.
How can maps help us navigate?
Maps show landforms and natural features on the Earth’s surface to guide travelers. We can use maps of roads to tell us which road to take.
What is geography?
Geography is a science that deals with Earth's surface. It is the study of the interaction between people and their environments, both natural and human.
What are the 7 continents from largest to smallest?
The continents are, from largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
Ocean _________ govern the world's weather and churn a kaleidoscope of __________.
Ocean currents govern the world's weather and churn a kaleidoscope of life.
What are the two types of processes in which landforms can be made by?
Constructive and deconstructive processes.
What does a globe show?
A globe is a 3D map in the shape of a ball. It shows us a map of the whole world. It can show the world’s landforms, countries or both at the same time!
What are the two branches of geography?
Physical geography and human geography.
What two continents make up Eurasia?
The continents of Europe and Asia are actually part of a single, enormous piece of land called Eurasia.
What are the five major ocean basins?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern.
What is a constructive process?
This process involves the building of features. In other words, addition land material is added to the surface of our Earth, creating new landforms.
What is a political map?
They show the geographic boundaries between governmental units such as countries, states, and counties. They show roads, cities and major water features such as oceans, rivers and lakes.
What is Physical Geography?
Physical geography studies, observes and measures Earth's surfaces and how and why they change.
What are Earth's three main layers?
The core, mantle and crust.
What ocean basin is the largest?
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean covering more than 30% of the Earth.
What is deposition of sediment?
The placing of materials in a new place by flowing ice or water, wind or gravity.
What is a physical map?
Physical maps show us where and what landforms cover our Earth.Physical maps show us where to find mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and many more landforms.
What is human geography?
Human geography focused on where people live, what they do, and how they use the land.
How many plate boundaries are there?
There are 7 major tectonic plate boundaries of the world.
What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
There are two large patches that move all around the ocean.There is one large one in the western pacific ocean and one in the east. As most of the garbage is made out of plastic, it is buoyant, so floats at the top of the ocean.
What is a deconstructive process?
This involves the breakdown or tearing down of land surface to form new features. The process may be seen as ‘carving out’ parts of the land to form new features.
What is a thematic map? Give an example.
A thematic map shows a certain topic, such as the average rainfall in an area.
What is a physical characteristic?
Features of the Earth's surface, such as landforms, water systems, climate patterns and plant and animal life.