Physical Features Vocab
A large, flat area of land
What is plains?
Show streets and highways
What is a ROAD map?
Answers the question, "Where is it?" (Absolute and Relative)
What is LOCATION?
OCEAN - EAST of NORTH AMERICA
What is Atlantic Ocean?
Region that includes COLORADO and CALIFORNIA
What is WEST?
A large body of saltwater nearly or partly surrounded by land: much smaller than an ocean.
What is a sea?
What is a PHYSCIAL map?
Explains how people, products, and ideas travel around the world
What is MOVEMENT?
This CONTINENT is located completely in the SOUTHERN HEMPISHPERE
Australia/Antarctica
Region that includes FLORIDA and GEORGIA
What is the SOUTHEAST?
A large raised area of land, such as a mountain, with a flat top. It may have dep valley or canyons.
What is a plateau?
Shows weather patterns/regions of an area
What is a CLIMATE map
Answers the question, "What is it like?" using physical and human characteristics
What is PLACE?
This CONTINENT is directly SOUTH of NORTH AMERICA
What is SOUTH AMERICA?
Region that includes NEW YORK and MAINE
What is NORTHEAST
a large group or chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
Shows elevation of a smaller area using contour lines
What is a TOPOGRAPHICAL map
An area that has something in common
What is a REGION?
This OCEAN is WEST of NORTH AMERICA
What is the PACIFIC OCEAN?
Region that includes KANSAS and NEBRASKA
What is MIDWEST
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger masses of land.
What is an isthmus?
Shows borders and boundaries of states or countries
What is a POLITICAL map
Explains how humans modify, adapt to, and depend on the environment
What is HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION?
This CONTINENT is EAST of SOUTH AMERICA
What is AFRICA?
Region that includes TEXAS and NEW MEXICO
What is SOUTHWEST?