Unit 2 Geography Review

All the oceans connected are referred to as the

• big ocean

• world ocean

• Atlantic ocean

• big blue

Geographers needed to refer to the different areas of water that were near different continents and separated the land so they

• named the five oceans different names.

• still just called it the world ocean.

• went swimming to wash their worries away.

A continent is a (pick 2)

• large area of land separated by oceans

• large ocean

• place with it's own currency and government

• group of countries (except for Australia which is one country!)

A pole is (one serious, one joke answer)

• a picture of the earth

• the area at the top or bottom of the globe

• where people say Santa is from

• half of the globe

The symbols on a map show you a key to understanding the important features of the map. These symbols look like

• half of the globe

• pictures on a map

• large areas of land

The equator splits the world into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The Prime Meridian splits the Earth into the Western and Eastern Hemisphere. Hemispheres are

• large areas of land

• large areas of water

• half of the globe

Geography - geo means land - graph means writing.

Geography is the ...

• study of the land and Earth

• study of writing

• study of mathematics

• study of rocks

The largest continent is

• Europe

• Australia

• Asia

• Africa

The smallest continent is

• Europe

• Australia

• Asia

• Antarctica

The countries that make up North America are

• Mexico

• Canada

• Greenland

• USA