Maps | Latitiude & Longitude | Oceans & Continents | Earth | Miscellaneous |
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What is a key or legend?
The box in which map symbols are explained.
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What is the equator?
The invisible line at 0 degrees latitude?
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What is the Pacific Ocean?
I am the ocean located west of North America.
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What is a sphere?
The shape of planet Earth
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What is an axis?
I am an imaginary line through the center of the Earth connecting the two pole.
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What is a political map?
I show cities, states and countries.
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What are meridians?
Lines of longitude are called
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What are Europe and Asia?
The two continents are connected together.
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What is the Western Hemisphere?
North America and South America are both located here.
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What is the Tropic of Cancer?
I am the place farthest North at which the sun shines directly overhead.
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What is a compass rose?
I show both cardinal and intermediate directions.
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What is East and West?
Lines of latitude run
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What is the Indian Ocean?
This ocean lies just West of Australia.
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What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
Asia, Australia and most of Europe can be found here.
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What is a mountain?
A very tall high natural place on Earth-higher than a hill
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What is a scale?
I help you estimate real distances on Earth.
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What is the Prime Meridian?
I am an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole at 0 degrees longitude.
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What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern?
Name all five the Earth's ocean.
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What is the Southern Hemisphere?
South America and Antarctica are located here
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What is a cape?
A pointed piece of land that sticks out into the sea, ocean, lake or river.
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What is a physical map?
I show land forms and bodies of water.
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What is a global grid?
I am a pattern of crossed lines formed by lines of latitude and lines of longitude.
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What is 7?
The Earth contains this many continents.
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What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
Most of Africa is located here
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What is a tributary?
A stream or river that flows into a larger river
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