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The study of Earth’s Physical Features

What is Geography?

An important tool used to study geography

What is a map?

Map reading is an important skill, and it has its own use of words or ?

What is vocabulary?

They are known as Cardinal Directions

What are North West East South?

Found on a map, it shows the Cardinal Directions

What is a Compass Rose?

Horizontal lines on a map

Lines of Latitude What is Latitude?

Parallel lines on a map

What are lines of Latitude?

This line of Latitude is the midway point between the northern and southern hemispheres

What is The Equator?

Long, vertical lines on a map

What are Lines of Longitude?

Each line of Longitude is known as this

What is Meridian?

This line of Longitude is found at zero degrees

The Western Hemisphere What is the Prime Meridian?

The purpose of using lines of Longitude and Latitude on a map

What is to find exact locations? (of towns, cities, countries, states, oceans, lakes, mountains, you, get, the, picture)

Used to measure Latitude and Longitude

What are Degrees? Latin America is shown above, shaded in green.

Word which means half of the Earth

What is Hemisphere?

Franklin Township’s Hemisphere

What is the Western Hemisphere?

This is the starting line of longitude

What is the Prime Meridian or 0 degrees? Prime Meridian 

North and South America are part of this hemisphere

What is the Western Hemisphere ? We live here ->

Countries of Central America, Mexico, Canada and the United States make up this contintent

What is North America?

These Islands are part of North American continent and the region of Latin America

What are the Caribbean Islands?

Central America and Mexico are part of North America and this famous region

What is Latin America?

The degree of Longitude which goes through the center of North America

What is 100 degrees West Longitude?

The degree of Latitude which goes through the center of South America

What is 20 degrees south Latitude?

Ocean found north of Asia

What is the Arctic Ocean? Double it! What ocean is South of Asia? Double that! What ocean is East of Asia?

Continent where 20 degrees north Latitude and 20 degrees east Longitude meet.

What is Africa? Double it! Continent where 20 degrees south Latitude and 60 degrees west Longitude meet.

Continent where 80 degrees south Latitude and 80 degrees east Longitude meet.

What is Antarctica? Double it! What are the hemispheres which make up Antarctica? Double it! Africa and South America are directly ________ of Antarctica.