Ch. 1 Study Sheet Flashcards
What are the imaginary lines that run north and south around the globe and come together at the poles?
Lines of Longitude (or meridians)
What are the imaginary lines that run east and west around the glove but never meet one another?
Lines of Latitude
What is a body of water surrounded by land?
Lake
What is a narrow strip of land which connects land masses?
Isthmus
What is a triangular shaped landform where a river fans out into smaller streams before reaching the ocean?
Delta
What is the wide mouth of a river where the ocean tide meets the river current.
estuary
What is a low place between mountains or hills?
Valley
What is a broad, flat-topped highland that may have a gorge or canyon?
Plateau
What is a geographical feature that is at least 2000 feet above sea level?
Mountain
What is an artificial lake caused by a dammed river?
reservoir
The equator passes through the mainland of which two continents? See a map.
South America and Africa
What current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe has a warming effect on the climate of Western Europe?
Gulf Stream
Which climate zones have a wide range of temperatures and experience seasons?
Temperate
What percentage of the earths’ surface is covered by water?
70%
What is the process of moving moisture from the oceans to the land and back to the oceans again?
The hydrologic cycle
Which ocean is the warmest ocean?
Indian Ocean
Which ocean is the largest ocean?
Pacific Ocean
What kind of economy is when most of a country’s income is derived from agriculture?
Agrarian Economy
What is the difference between “climate” and “weather”
Weather - the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth’s atmosphere in a localized area during a short period of time.
Climate - Patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region.
What helps the reader to determine distances on a map?
Scale
Which map projection accurately shows direction and shape by distorts area and size?
Mercator projection
What landform has flat tops and extremely steep sides, and are usually round or oblong in shape?
Mesa
What is the earth’s largest freshwater lake?
Lake Superior
What landform has flat rolling lands with few changes in elevation?
Plains
Be able to read a map:
- find a country by using coordinates.
- find landforms by directions
Practice
Be able to label these places on a map:
- South America
- North America
- Antarctica
- Australia
- Asia
- Europe
- Africa
- Antarctic Circle
- Arctic Circle
- Arctic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Equator
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Tropic of Cancer
- Prime Meridian
- Greenland
- International Date Line
- Mt. Everest
- Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Mt. McKinley
- Mt. Kilimanjaro
See maps in books
What oceans border the continent of Asia? See a map
Arctic, Pacific, and Indian
What oceans border the continent of North America? See a map
Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific
What body of water is wast of Australia? See a map
Indian Ocean
List the continents that touch the Arctic Circle. See a map
Asia, Europe, and North America
