United States in Spatial Terms Vocabulary #1

a low area surrounded by higher land.

• basin

• valley

• mountain

• meridian

Where a place is located in relation to other places.

• Tributary

• Relative Location

• Latitude

• Prime Meridian

5 ideas that help you learn about the earth and everything on it.

• Desert

• Relative Location

• 5 Themes of Geography

• Continent

One of the main landmasses of Earth.

• Landforms

• Continent

• Hemisphere

• Prime Meridian

Half of the Earth

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Hemisphere

• Prime Meridian

A stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.

• River system

• Gulf

• Location

• Tributary

An area of flat land alongside an ocean

• location

• place

• coastal plain

• gulf

One of the 5 themes of geography, tells where a place is

• prime meridian

• valley

• place

• location

imaginary line that divides the Earth into a northern and southern hemispheres

• latitude

• prime meridian

• equator

• longitude

A river and all of its tributaries

• plain

• gulf

• River system

• valley