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Social Studies Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the name of the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres | Equator |
| Which of the following is not a state: Rhode Island, Louisiana, Sacramento, Montana | Sacramento |
| What is a geographer | An expert who studies and creates maps of earths natural and humanmade features |
| What is a delta | An area of sediment at the mouth of a river |
| What are the names of the four hemispheres of the earth | Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western |
| Is the tropic of cancer north or south of the equator? | North |
| What are the 48 states linked together called | Contiguous |
| What does a star or dot on the middle of a circle usually mean on a map | The National Capital |
| What is the name given to a point of land extending into a body of water | Cape |
| What are the seven continents of the earth | Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa |
| What are three types of Social Scientests | Historian, Archaeologist, and Geographer |
| The height above sea level | Elevation |
| An area of flat land | Plateau |
| A large arm of a body of water partly surrounded by land | Bay |
| Which of the fowing is not a city: Seattle, Miami, Idaho, Chicago | Idaho |
| What is the Northern most point of the world called | North Pole |
| Is the Arctic circle north or south of the equator | North |
| What are the two continents in the world with the largest land areas | Africa and Asia |
| What is the term used to describe land surrounded by water | Island |