social studies
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- lake
- body of watercompletely surronded by land
- city
- community with many people
- ocean
- one of the four large bodies of salt water on the Earth's surface
- Cape
- A point of extension of land jutting into the water that is usually smaller or thinner than a peninsula
- desert
- a large area of dry land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it
- degree
- a point of measurement for lines of latitude and longitude
- mouthsource
- where the a river or stream ends or flows into another body of water and
- coast
- the shore of a sea or ocean
- canyon
- a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- lagoon
- a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
- map key/legend
- part of a map that explains what the symbols mean
- isthmus
- A narrow strip of land that lies between two bodies of water and connects to larger land masses.
- elevation
- height of land above sea level
- area
- The amount of surface enclosed by a figure measured in square units
- strait
- a narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water
- gulf
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land
- international date lines
- imaginary lines of longitude generally 180 (degrees)east or west of the prime meridian.
- compass/Compass Rose
- navigational instrument for finding directions
- pole
- location of either the most northern or southern point of the Earth's surface
- plateau
- an area of high, flat land
- mountain
- the highest form of land on the Earth's surface
- cardinal directions
- are the four main points of the compass: East South West North
- time zone
- One of the 24 areas on Earth within which all places have the same clock time
- river
- a large body of flowing water
- circle
- imaginary line of latitude either north or south of the equator
- plain
- a flat or level area of land
- latitude
- lines that run east/west and measure distance north and south of thg equqator
- rotation
- the turning of the Earth on its axis approxmately once every 24 hours
- scale
- part of a map that shows what distances on the map stand for in actual distances
- parallel line
- a line of latitude running east to west and measure distances north or south of the equator
- meridian
- a line of longitude running north and south that measures distances east and west of the Prime Meridean
- bay
- part of a large body of water that extends into shoreline,generally smaller than a gulf
- prime meridian
- starting point of longitude lines that passes through Greenwich, England;
- tributary
- a stream feeding a larger steam or lake
- sovereignty
- the groupof people who exert control over a certain area
- canal
- long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
- map
- a flat representation of all or a portion of the earth's surface
- equator
- imaginary line that runs around the earth half way between the north and south pole.
- harbor
- a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
- hemisphere
- The four equal halves that the eart is divided into.
- distance
- the separation of points on the earth's surface
- country
- a group of people with their own govt. and land
- location
- a point on the earth's surface
- peninsula
- body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides of water
- border/boundary
- the lines that are drawn on a map to show where one state or country ends and another begins
- delta
- flat, low lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river and deposited at its mouth
- mesa
- broad, flat topped landform with steep side; smaller than a plateau
- archipelago
- a group of many islands in a large body of water
- island
- a body of land surrounded by water
- atoll
- a small group of coral islands with a lagoon in the middle
- longitude
- A measure of how far east or west a place on Earth is from an imaginary line that runs between the North and South Poles
- Tropic of Cancer
- a line of latitude about 23 degrees North of the equator
- state
- one of the 50 that make up the United States
- subcontinent
- part of a continent that is separate from the rest of the land
- contiguous
- areas that are joined together inside a common boundary; the 48 states in this part of the country are joined together
- capital
- the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, state
- landlocked
- Almost or entirely surrounded by land; cut off from seas
- tropic
- a line of latitude either 23 1/2 degrees N or 23 1/2 degrees Sof the equator
- Tropic of Capricorn
- a line of latitude about 23 degrees South of the equator
- intermediate directions
- The points of a compass that fall between the four cardinal points (Ex. Northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest).