Vocab #1
A large land area
What is a continent?
Half of the Earth
What is hemisphere?
An imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is equator?
Where a place is located, compared to one or more places.
What is relative location?
The exact position on the Earth.
What is absolute location?
Invisible lines that run north and south and measured in degrees.
What are longitude lines?
Invisible lines that run east and west and measured in degrees.
What are latitude lines?
An invisible line that is the starting point of longitude lines and divides the Earth into the western and eastern hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian?
A huge mass of slow-moving ice formed thousands of years ago.
What is a glacier?
An area of high, level land.
What is a plateau?
Part of a body of water where ships can safely dock.
What is a harbor?
A narrow body of water between a mainland and an island.
What is a sound?
An oval-shaped hill.
What is a drumlin?
The height of land.
What is elevation?
Water that falls to the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
A storm with high winds and heavy snow.
What is a blizzard?
A cold weather storm that has strong winds from the north and east with flooding or heavy snow.
What is a nor'easter?
Something found in nature that people can use.
What is a natural resource?
Something people make, grow or raise, usually to sell.
What is a product?
Something that can be made again quickly by nature.
What is renenwable?
A city area.
What is urban?
A statement that can be checked and proven to be true.
What is a fact?
A town or small city near a large city.
What is a suburb?
A statement that tells what a person thinks or believes.
What is an opinion?
A country area.
What is rural?