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Vocabulary
Physical Features
Climate and Weather
Maps
Physical Processes & Resources
100
A FLAT picture that shows the location of things.
What is a map.
100
mountain range
What is a chain of mountains
100
Climate and weather
What are also physical features
100
landform map
What shows a place's main physical features.
100
Physical processes
What affects all things on Earth?
200
Border
What is lines on a map that show where a location like a state or country ends.
200
valley
What is a low area of land that lies between hills or mountains.
200
Climate
What is a place's usual weather over the year. Includes how hot and cold the temperatures are and how much rain or snow falls
200
Grid System
What are lines on a map or globe to help you find a place's location.
200
Erosion
What is wearing away the Earth's surface. Water, wind, and sand can all cause erosion.
300
hemisphere
What is half of the globe when it is divided into the northern and southern halves along the equator; or into the eastern and western halves when divided by the prime meridian.
300
Plateau
What is a landform with steep sides that rise to a flat top.
300
What is most direct near the equator...
What is sunlight. If you live close to the equator you would get the most sun.
300
Absolute location
What is the exact location of a place
300
ecosystem
What is made up of the plants, animals, land, water, and climate that make up an area.
400
Continents
What is seven of the Earth's largest landforms. They include: Africa, Antartica, Asia, Austrailia,Europe, North America and South America.
400
includes land, water, climate, and plant life
What are physical features
400
Vegetation
What is plant life; which is also another physical feature. Vegetation is affected by the climate.
400
Latitude
What are lines that measure distances north and south of the equator.
400
Minerals
What are gold, iron, copper, and salt.
500
latitude
What is imaginary lines on maps and globes that run east and west around the globe. The equator is an example of a line of latitude.
500
This covers more than half of the Earth.
What is water; another kind of physical feature.
500
Growing season
What is the time when plants can grow.
500
Longitude
What are lines that measure distances east and west of the prime meridian.
500
nonrenewable resource
What cannot be made again quickly by nature or people. Minerals are nonrenewable. Fuels, such as coal and oil, are also nonrenewable. A fuel is a natural resource that is burned to make heat or energy.