map skills vocabulary
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| globe | show 🗑
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| sphere | show 🗑
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| show | large, continuous land masses that are surrounded by oceans
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| ocean | show 🗑
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| show | the place farthest north on Earth with a latitude of 90 degrees N, where all lines of longitude converge
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| South Pole | show 🗑
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| hemi- | show 🗑
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| show | half of a sphere
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| show | a line of latitude that lies at 66 degrees north of the Equator, 1 of the 5 major lines of latitude that mark the globe
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| show | a line of latitude that lies at 66 degrees south of the Equator, 1 of the 5 major lines of latitude that mark the globe
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| Equator | show 🗑
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| Prime Meridian | show 🗑
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| show | a line of longitude on a map/globe drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole, following 180 degrees, but turning and twisting to miss bodies or land; it is where the days of the week change.
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| Tropic of Cancer | show 🗑
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| Tropic of Capricorn | show 🗑
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| show | also known as "parallels", these imaginary lines run east to west, but measure distance north or south of the Equator
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| show | also know as "meridians", these imaginary lines run north to south, but measure distance east to west of the Prime Meridian
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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