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