Intro to the World - Glossary

Question 1

Convention

Answer 1

A standard technique or rules that are applied to a certain situation

Question 2

Continent

Answer 2

Large land masses on the earth’s surface

Question 3

Plate

Answer 3

Large mass of rock that together makes up the earth’s crust.

Question 4

Crust

Answer 4

The earth’s outer ‘skin’ made up of plates.

Question 5

Equator

Answer 5

0oLatitude, mapping line that divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.

Question 6

Tropics

Answer 6

The area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Question 7

Latitude

Answer 7

Mapping lines that run parallel to each other horizontally around the earth.

Question 8

Longitude

Answer 8

Mapping lines that run parallel to each other vertically around the earth.

Question 9

Physical Map

Answer 9

A map showing relief and natural features

Question 10

Political Map

Answer 10

A map showing political features such as country borders and cities.

Question 11

Relief

Answer 11

The shape of land.

Variations of elevation on the earth’s surface.

Question 12

Commonwealth

Answer 12

A free association of independent countries each of which recognises the Queen as the Head of the Commonwealth.

Question 13

Monarch

Answer 13

A King or Queen that holds power.

Question 14

Global corporations

Answer 14

Companies that have expanded into many parts of the world.

Question 15

Exploitation

Answer 15

Taking advantage of a person or a situation for one’s own gain.

Question 16

Trench

Answer 16

A long narrow steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.