Geography Vocabulary

What is the definition of a landform?

• Rocks that formed mountains over thousands of years

• A natural feature of the earth's surface

• chocolate lava

• A cliff with water flowing

Which picture shows lines of latitude?

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What is the Prime Meridian?

• an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.

• the earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England.

• a long, narrow mark or band.

• the space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet.

Which picture shows longitude?

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What is the equator?

• a long, narrow mark or band.

• an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.

• the relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the earth

• the earth's zero of longitude, which by convention passes through Greenwich, England.

Which is NOT an example of a landform?

• hill

• plateau

• canyon

• tree

Which is an example of an exact location?

• Turn left after 400 feet

• 38 miles southwest of Baltimore

• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500

• 4 houses down from the corner

Which is an example of relative location?

• 40 degrees north, 36 degrees south

• Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France

• 20 degrees fahrenheit

• 36 miles north of Boston

Which is an example of absolute location?

• In my shoe

• 20 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001

• Under my bed

• 45 miles south of Denver

What is a hemisphere?

• Very delicious chocolate

• the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.

• part of a heating and cooling system and is installed outside your home.

• a half of a sphere.

  a half of the earth, usually as divided into northern and southern halves by the equator, or into western and eastern halves by an imaginary line passing through the poles.