1st Six Weeks Vocabulary

Continent

• Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, etc.)

• Land with steep sides that rises sharply from surrounding land

• Largest body of water.

• Large natural stream of water that runs through the land.

Mountain

• Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, etc.)

• Land with steep sides that rises sharply from surrounding land

• Largest body of water.

• Large natural stream of water that runs through the land.

Mountain

• Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, etc.)

• Land with steep sides that rises sharply from surrounding land

• Largest body of water.

• Large natural stream of water that runs through the land.

River

• Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, etc.)

• Land with steep sides that rises sharply from surrounding land

• Largest body of water.

• Large natural stream of water that runs through the land.

Lake

• • A sizeable inland body of water.

• A tropical forest, in an area of high annual rainfall.

• Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water.

• • A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.

Rainforest

• • A sizeable inland body of water.

• A tropical forest, in an area of high annual rainfall.

• Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water.

• • A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.

Peninsula

• • A sizeable inland body of water.

• A tropical forest, in an area of high annual rainfall.

• Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water.

• • A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.

Desert

• • A sizeable inland body of water.

• A tropical forest, in an area of high annual rainfall.

• Body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water.

• • A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.

Map Key

• Tool to help understand the symbols on a map

• 0' Latitude

• 0' Longitude

• Half of the Earth

Equator

• Tool to help understand the symbols on a map

• 0' Latitude

• 0' Longitude

• Half of the Earth