Vocabulary
What is a community? What's ours?
A community is a town or city that you live in. Pensacola.
DO we live in the Southern or NOrthern hemisphere?
Northern
The United States are made up of many different ____________.
states
Where are the Everglades?
Florida
You want to go from the Everglades to the State of Liberty. In what direction will you travel?
North
What is the place where the government meets called and what is the name of this city in Florida?
capital and Tallahassee
What are the two imaginary lines that split the Earth in two? The ____________ separates the Eastern and a Western hemispheres and the _____________ separates the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Prime Meridian and Equator
How many states are in the US?
What does the Statue of Liberty represent and where is it located?
Freedom and New York City
From the Statue of Liberty, what direction is Mount Rushmore?
West
Name the cardinal and intermediate directions in the correct order that you would find them going around a compass.
North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest
What continent is completely in the Southern hemispehre?
Australia
I grew up in Colorado. When I was 18 I moved to Pensacola, Florida. What direction did I have to travel?
Southeast
What famous place that we read about is Northwest of Pensacola?
Mount Rushmore
The ocean is what direction from Pensacola?
South
Explain the difference between a map key and a map scale.
A map key is used to explain what symbols on the map mean and a map scale is used to determine the distance represented on the map.
What is the only country that is also a continent?
Australia
What two states does Florida share a border with?
Alabama and Georgia
What city and ocean can you see from the Golden Gate bridge?
San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean
What do you need to have in order to measure the distance on a map?
A map scale and a ruler
What is geography and what is the five things we study?
Geography is the study of Earth - its spaces, land, water, air, and people
Name the seven continents and five oceans of the Earth.
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica
Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, Indian, and Arctic
What city and state is Taylor Swift from?
West Reading, Pennsylvania
What was the previous name of the tall tower in CHicago before it was given its current name?
Sears Tower
What direction would you have to travel going from North America to Africa (as the crow flies)?
Southeast