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WorksheetsG6 Geocabulary
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
This theme of geography describes a specific location on Earth using coordinates of latitude and longitude.
Absolute location
Relative location
Place
Region
This theme of geography describes where something is on Earth in relation to another location.
Absolute location
Relative location
Place
Region
This theme of geography describes the human and physical characteristics of a city or country on Earth.
Human-environment interaction
Movement
Place
Biomes
This geography theme considers how people adapt to and modify their earthly surroundings.
Human-environment interaction
Absolute location
Place
Movement
This geography theme divides the world into manageable areas for geographic study with distinctive human characteristics, such as demographics or politics, and physical characteristics, such as climate and vegetation.
Climate zones
Biomes
Place
Region
This geography theme includes imports/exports, migration, the expansion of the internet and cell phone coverage across the globe. Humans, ideas, goods, resources, and communication traveling across vast distances.
Place
Movement
Region
Human-environment interaction
Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).
continent
ocean
region
location
A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.
Continent
Gulf
River
Ocean
The atmospheric conditions (temperature, precipitation, etc.) prevailing in an area in general or over a long period of time.
Temperature
Weather
Climate
Precipitation
The conditions of the atmosphere at a specific place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
Precipitation
Weather
Climate
Temperature
The degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object.
Temperature
Precipitation
Climate
Weather
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground from the sky.
Temperature
Climate
Weather
Precipitation
A large naturally occurring community of flora (plant life) and fauna (animal life) occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.
Region
Climate zone
Biome
Place
These are the elements and characteristics that should be on each map.
Lines
BOLTSS
THUNDER
Numbers
Which of the following is NOT one of the BOLTSS?
Border
Orientation
Source
Location
Half of the earth, usually divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator, or into western and eastern halves by the Prime Meridian.
Half a sphere
Hemisearth
Hemisphere
Hemicircle
Lines that run North and South on a map of the Earth and measure distances East and West of the Prime Meridian using degrees.
Capricorn
Equator
Latitude
Longitude
Lines that run East and West on a map of the Earth and measure distances North and South of the Equator.
Latitude
Longitude
Equator
Prime Meridians
An imaginary line drawn around the Earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
Parallel
Meridian
Tropic of Cancer
Equator
Another name for lines of latitude
Meridians
Coordinates
Parallels
Axis
Another name for lines of longitude
Meridians
Horizontals
Parallels
Dominions
Lines of latitude are:
Horizontal
Vertical
Lines of longitude are:
Horizontal
Vertical
Cardinal directions are:
North
South
East
West
Northeast
Southeast
Northwest
Southwest
Intermediate directions are:
North
South
East
West
Northeast
Southeast
Northwest
Southwest
