Geography
Latitude is ...
The distance between the equator and a place north or south of the equator; begins at the equator (0°)
Which desert extends from Mexico into Texas and New Mexico.
What is the Chihuahuan?
Name all seven continents.
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, and Europe
Imaginary horizontal lines that never touch.
What is latitude.
An area in the desert where there are plants and water.
What is an Oasis?
Longitude is...
The distance east or west of an imaginary line on the globe that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole , begins at Prime Meridian (0°)
A place that is very dry.
What is a desert?
Asia
What is the largest continent on Earth.
0 degrees parallel that north and south are measured from.
What is the Equator.
A piece of land sticking out into a body of water, so that it is almost surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula.
The point where longitude and latitude intersect.
What are coordinates?
What desert is Death Valley located?
What is the Mojave desert?
What continents surround the Indian Ocean?
What are Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.
The hemisphere the Tropic of Cancer passes through.
What is the Northern Hemisphere.
A crack or split in Earth’s crust along which movement takes place.
What is a fault line?
Cool summers and cold winters, 32° on average
What is the arctic zone?
The Gobi desert is located on this continent.
What is Asia?
Name 2-3 characteristics of the Tropical zone.
What are high humidity, hot temperatures, and adequate rainfall.
Passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian.
Fuel, such as oil, natural gas, and coal, formed in the earth from the remains of living things.
What is a fossil fuel?
180° in Pacific Ocean
What is zero?
Australia
What is the smallest continent.
The United States is considered to be in this climate zone due to its warm summers and cold winters.
What is temperate zone.
Moving around often in search of food; not settled in one place.
What is Nomadic?