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Where I'm From
Continents & Oceans
MAPS
Map features
Definitions
100

What town is your school in?

Nanuet

100
How many Continents are there? Name them for extra points
seven (7) North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
100
What are maps used for?
Maps show you where things are, and location
100

The imaginary horizontal (left to right-side to side) lines that stretch from east to west are

What are latitude lines?

100

Region

What are the areas that share a least one common feature? For example countries, states, and cities are political regions ( also climate and culture can define a region)

200
What state do you live in?
New York
200
How many Oceans are there?
four (4)
200
Name one type of map.
possible answers: street map subway map floor map weather map political map inset map physical map
200

One of the the latitude lines located in the halfway between the North and South Poles is called...

What is the Equator?

200
Location
What answers the question, "Where is it"? (absolute and relative location)
300
What country do you live in?
United States of America
300

Name the Continents that begin with the letter "A".

Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

300
What symbol shows direction on a map?
Compass Rose
300

The imaginary lines that divide the globe vertically (up and down)

What are longitude lines?

300
Movement
What is "How do people, goods, and ideas move from place to place?"?
400
What continent do you live on?
North America
400
What is the largest and smallest Continent?
largest: Asia smallest: Australia
400

Name the Cardinal (4 main directions)and Intermediate directions (4 in-between directions).

north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest

400
The longitude line that runs from pole to pole through Greenwich, England is called
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
Place
What is identifies the natural and human features that make one place different from every other place?(landforms, climate, plants, animals, people, language, or culture)
500

What town, county and state do you live in?

house #, street name town/city state zip code

500
What is the largest Ocean? Name one (1) Continent that it touches.
Pacific Ocean: North America, South America, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
500
What part of the map tells you what different symbols on a map mean?
map key/legend
500

The names of the northern most and southern most points on the Earth.

What are the North and South poles.


500
Human-Environment Interaction
What is the relationship between people and the environment? (build dams, environment can affect how people live, work, dress, travel, and communicate)