Geography Vocabulary

A line of latitude

• Compass

• Magnitude

• Parallel

The most widely used map projection

• Grade

• Degree

• Robinson

A line of longitude

• Meridian

• Mercator

• Degree

To move from one place to another

• Migrate

• Fault

• Geo

The reason why many people migrated to California in 1849

• Volcanic

• Scale

• Gold

Imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole

• Migrate

• Longitude

• Latitude

Description of the Great Plains during the severe drought during the 1930s

• Missouri

• Dust Bowl

• Gold

A process that causes Earth's surface to change slowly

• Erosion

• Richter

• Grade

To move from one place to another

• Dust Bowl

• Gold

• Migrate

Greek for "Earth"

• Geo

• Grade

• Degree