Vocab 1
A area of land known by the types of animals, vegetation, soil, and climate located there.
What is a Biome?
The narrow passage is the water connecting to the two seas or in large waters.
What is a Strait?
A portion of the ocean that penetrates land.
What is a Gulf?
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
What is a Bay?
Geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.
What is a Prime Meridian?
Is a rising landform that grows higher than the area around it on one side.
What is a Plateau?
The portion of a land that is nearby water that is connected to a larger body by an isthmus.
What is a Peninsula?
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
What is a Fjord?
A group of islands.
What is a Archipelago?
A unit of latitude or longitude used to define points on the earth's surface or on the celestial sphere.
What are Degrees (as in location)?
A length of water wider than a strait.
What is a Channel?
A lake or an inlet of the sea.
What is a Lock or Loch?
Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
What is a Delta?
A list of symbols that appear on the map to represent something else.
What is a Key/Legend?
Two pairs of imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run east to west, and north to south. They measure the opposite pair they are.
What are Lines of Longitude, and Latitude
Low area that’s between a hill and mountain.
What is a Valley?
A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
What is a Isthmus?
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a Cape (in geography)?
The misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth.
What is a Distortion (on a map)?
Northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW) and northwest (NW).
What are intercardinal directions?
The branch that flows into the mainstream to the White River, the Arkansas River and Red River.
What is a Tributary?
A body of water sheltered by natural or artificial barriers. It can provide safe anchorage and permit the transfer of cargo and passengers between ships and the shore.
What is a Harbor?
An artificial waterway designed for navigation that people could cross the water with boats or ships.
What is a Canal?
Refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground- map scale.
What is a Scale (on a map)?
A symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions.
What is a Compass Rose?