Week 1 Vocab (Weekly Reader)

Land that is surrounded on three sides by water

• Strait

• Peninsula

• Isthmus

• Landlocked

A book of maps

• Google Maps

• Maps

• Atlas

A narrow section of water connecting two larger bodies of water

• Strait

• Isthmus

• Peninsula

• Landlocked

Art and science of map making

• Geology

• Biology

• Cartography

• Photography

A person who makes maps

• Cartographer

• Photographer

• Geologist

• Historian

A long body of land connecting two larger bodies of land

• Peninsula

• Landlocked

• Strait

• Isthmus

Scientist who studies weather

• Geologist

• Meteorologist

• Chemist

Scientist who studies the Earth

• Meteorologist

• Geologist

• Biologist

Name for the supercontinent

• Pangaea

• Supercontinent

• Atlas

Lines of latitude run in which directions?

• North and South

• East and West