Maps that show features made by humans - roads, capital cities, borders of countries, etc
What is a political map?
The mountain range on the west coast and largest of South America
What are Andes Mountains?
This country is the largest in South America and speaks Portuguese
What is Brazil?
Land surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
This climate dominates Southern California and is also the climate of Southern Europe
What is Mediterranean?
Latitude and longitude help determine this
What is absolute location?
Major river in South America; supports rainforest
What is Amazon?
Province of Canada (above Washington state) on West coast of country
What is the British Columbia?
Africa is covered with this landform, which basins are cut through and collect/provide water
What are plateaus?
Largest and most populated continent in the world
What is Asia?
Movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
Volcanic and highest mountain on the African continent
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
Region made of mainland peninsulas and archipelagos
What is the Southeast Asia?
The name of closely grouped islands like the Maldives
What is an archipelago?
This European country originally colonized Australia, New Zealand and parts of Oceania
What is the United Kingdom?
The invisible lines that run north/south (parallel to equator) and east/west (from pole to pole) and help locate places are:
What are latitude & longitude lines?
The mountains range that divides Italy from the rest of Europe
What are the Alps?
Aboriginal people are native to this continent
What is Australia?
This landform is usually considered the geographic feature that divides Europe and Asia
What are the Ural Mountains ?
Smallest continent, which lies completely in southern hemisphere, which is also a country
What is Australia?
Projection map that is commonly used in textbooks and are very accurate (except flattening at poles)
What are Robinson maps?
The river in South Asia that runs through India; polluted yet considered holy
What is the Ganges?
This country is largest (landmass), located in Europe/Asia and has great influence
What is Russia?
World's tallest mountain range and tallest peak names
What are the Himalayas and Everest?
This country has provinces as a political unit, a parliament and a Prime Minister as head of government
What is Canada?