_______ are flat pictures that show parts of the Earth's surface.

_______ are people who make maps.

_______ is the point on Earth that is the farthest south.

_______ is the point on Earth that is the farthest north.

_______ is an imaginary line that divides the Earth into two halves: The Northern Hemisphere and The Southern Hemisphere.

The Earth spins on an imaginary _______.

_______ take photos of the Earth from the space. These photos show exact shape of the land and the oceans.

Today everyone knows that the Earth is _______.

In the past, people thought our planet was a _______ surface.

This is a text on the map. The text tells us the names of the places.

_____ are very large areas of salt water. They cover most of the Earth's surface, and they are connected.

A map shows the four points of the compass (North, South, West, East) with their initials N, S, W, and E. It helps us to find different places.

This is the box that explains the symbols and colors on the map.

This is a line with numbers. The numbers on the right show how many times the real distance is reduced on the map.

_______ is the largest of the oceans covering around one third of the Earth's surface.

_______ is the world's second-largest ocean. It separates Europe and Africa from North and South America.

___________ is the third largest ocean in the world. It lies south of Asia, and India, and separates East Africa from Australia. It is the warmest ocean in the world.

___________ is in the northern part of the Earth, primarily around the North Pole. It is the smallest and shallowest of the world's oceans.

The Southern Ocean (__________) is the fourth largest, or second smallest of the oceans. It sits at the South Pole and the southern part of the Earth.

________are large areas of land that rise out of the oceans. They take up a quarter of the Earth's surface.

According to National Geographic, there are seven _______: Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Oceania and Antarctica.

________ is the third-largest continent. The continent includes the enormous island of Greenland in the northeast.

________ is the fourth-largest continent and extends from the sunny beaches of the Caribbean Sea to the frigid waters near the Antarctic Circle.

________ is the sixth-largest continent, contains just 7 percent of the world's land.

________ is the largest continent, stretches from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the western Pacific Ocean.

________ the second-largest continent, covers an area more than three times that of the United States.

__________ is the windiest, driest, and iciest place on Earth. It is larger than Europe or Australia, but unlike those continents, it has no permanent population. People who work there are scientific researchers and support staff, such as pilots and cooks.

_________ is the smallest continent. It is the flattest and the second-driest continent, after Antarctica. It is also called Oceania and includes the thousands of tiny islands of the Central Pacific and South Pacific, most notably Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia

(including the U.S. state of Hawaii).