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Geography-5
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archipelago | A group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean |
| Climate | Local weather conditions of an area like temperature, precipitation, humidity, sunshine, wind and other conditions |
| Environment | The geographic characteristics that surround and affect the way people live |
| Forest | An area where coniferous and deciduous trees are the most dominant plant |
| Deciduous Trees | These trees lose their leaves in the fall |
| Coniferous Tree | Includes trees that have pinecones such as fir and spruce |
| Geography | the natural environment of a place. It includes its physical features (landforms, bodies of water,) weather, climate, vegetation and animal life. |
| grasslands | flat or tolling areas of land covered with grasses. Called prairies in North America and pampas in South America |
| Gulf | A large body of water that cuts deep into the land |
| Hemisphere | Half of the globe of half of the earth (northern, southern, eastern, western, |
| Isthmus | A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses. An isthmus has water on two sides |
| latitude/longitude | Imaginary lines on a map or globe that measure distance north and south of the Equator and west of the Prime Meridan |
| Mesoamerica | Southern part of North America extending from Mexico to northwestern Columbia |
| Mountain | A landform that is very high and steep. They are usually wide at the bottom and rise to a narrow peak or ridge. |
| North America | Continent compromising of Greenland, United States, and Canada |
| Ocean | A large body of saltwater |
| Physical Map | A map that shows landforms |
| Plains | Large area of flat lands |
| Plateau | High, flat, land |
| Political Map | A map that shows location and borders of countries and communities. |
| Prime Meridian | The line of longitude form the South Pole to the North Pole measured in degrees. It divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. |
| Rain Forest | A dense, either tropical or temperate forest that receives lots of rain year round. |
| Region | A broad geographic area |
| South America | The entire Western Hemisphere continent south of Mesoamerica |
| Tropics | The area on the earth between the 23 1/2 degrees N and 23 1/2 degrees S lines of latitude where the climate is always hot. |
| Tundra | A cold, dry region covered with snow for more than half the year; vast treeless plain where the subsoil is always frozen. |
| Vegetation | All the plant life found in an area |
| Equator | An imaginary line that circles the globe at its widest point (halfway between the North and South poles), dividing the Earth into tow halves. |