Maps | Landforms and Bodies of Water | Latitude and Longitude | Vocabulary | Resources |
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Physical Maps
These types of maps show landforms and bodies of water, such as mountains, deserts, rivers and oceans.
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Continents
Large bodies of land on the surface of the earth are known as.
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The Equator
This imaginary line of latitude divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
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Geography
This is the study of the earth and everything on it.
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Renewable Resources
These types of resources rebuild themselves.
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Latitude
These lines run east to west across the surface of the earth and measure the degrees north and south of the equator.
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Archipelago
This is a group or chain of at least 4 or more islands.
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Prime Meridian
This line runs 0 degrees longitude.
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Hemisphere
This word refers to half of the earth. It's Greek meaning means half of a sphere.
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Renewable
Renewable or Non-Renewable: Animals
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Map Key
To find out what the symbols on a map mean, you should look at this.
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Isthmus
This land form is a narrow stretch of land connecting two larger bodies of land.
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Longitude
These lines run North to South and measure degrees east and west of the Prime Meridian.
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Climate
Weather of a place over a long period of time.
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Non-Renewable
Renewable or Non-Renewable: Coal
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Cardinal
North, South, East and West are known at the ___________ directions.
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A Tributary
A rive or stream that flows into a larger body of water is called?
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It gets hotter/the temperature increases.
What happens to the temperature the closer you get to the equator?
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Elevation
The height of land above sea level is known as this.
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A tree
One of these can provide oxygen for 4 people.
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Political
These types of maps show major cities, capitals, countries and their borders.
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Pangaea
What is the name of the "Super Continent" from 200 million years ago?
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How many hemispheres are there? And what hemisphere do we live in?
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Intermediate Directions
North East, South East, South West and North West are known as _________________.
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Non-Renewable
These types of resources are worth a lot of money.
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