Understanding the Globe | Understanding Latitude and Longitude | Geographic Terms for Water and Landforms | Physical Features of the United States | Vocabulary |
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What is the North Pole?
The most northern point on Earth
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What is absolute or exact location?
Geographers begin to study a place by finding this
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What are the 4 oceans?
Where most of Earth's water is found.
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What is North America?
The United States is on this continent.
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What is a globe?
A sphere that is a model of Earth and most accurately represents it
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What are the cardinal directions?
North, South, East and West
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What are parallels of latitude.
The lines that circle Earth from west to east
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What is a tributary?
A smaller stream that runs into a river
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What are the Rocky Mountains?
The largest mountain range in the west.
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What is isthmus?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
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What are the intermediate directions?
Points in between the cardinal points
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What is the Equator?
The starting point for measuring parallels of latitude
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What is a gulf?
Sometimes part of a sea or an ocean cuts into a mass of land
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What are the Great Plains?
They reach from Canada to Texas.
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What is climate?
Aspects of weather, such as temperature, rainfall, and wind, that are measured over time in an area
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What is the Prime Meridian?
The line that separates the globe into the Western and Eastern Hemisphere.
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What are meridians of longitude?
The lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole
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What is a valley
The low area between ranges of mountains or hills
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What are the Ohio River and the Missouri River.
Two of the Mississippi's largest tributaries.
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What is physical feature?
Flip card physical featurea part of Earth’s surface that is a landmass or a body of water. Physical Features of the United States include the Rocky Mountains, the Mississippi River, and the Great Plains
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What are Asia and Australia ?
The largest and smallest continent
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What is the Prime Meridian
The starting place for measuring longitude
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What is a delta?
When soil is deposited at the mouth of a river. It is usually shaped like a triangle.
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What is the Rio Grande
Forms much of the U.S. border with Mexico.
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What is geography?
The study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them.
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