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Social Studies
Unit 2- Our World
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, and west |
| map key | a box on a map that explains each symbol |
| Montclair | the name of my town |
| New Jersey | the name of my state |
| The United States of America | the name of my country |
| fifty | the number of states in our country |
| seven | the number of continents |
| Alaska and Hawaii | two states not connected |
| Canada and Mexico | two countries that are US neighbors |
| North America | US is a part of this continent |
| landform | a kind of land with a special shape |
| seven continents | North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe |
| relative location | a location that tells what a place is near |
| absolute location | an exact location, like an address |
| island | land with water all around |
| pole | a point on Earth farthest from the equator |
| climate | the kind of weather a place has over a long time |
| season | part of the year with its own kind of weather |
| equator | imaginary line that divides the Earth into two halves |
| peninsula | land with water around three sides |
| location | the place where something is |