7th Grade Social Studies
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- Scale model of Earth
- Globe
- Pattern of lines that circle the globe in EW and NS directions
- Grid
- East-West lines
- Latitude
- Lines of latitude
- Parallels
- Parallels measure distance from the equator
- Degrees
- Degrees are further divided
- Minutes
- North-South Lines
- Longitude
- Imaginary line that runs through Greenwich
- Prime Meridian
- Lines of longitude
- Meridians
- Divides the globe into two halves
- Hemisphere
- Planets land surface is organized into seven large land masses
- Continents
- Land masses smaller than continents and completely surounded by water
- Islands
- Largest mass of water
- Ocean
- 180 Longitude Meridian
- International Date Line
- Related to cities
- Urban
- Flat diagram of all the Earth's surface
- Map
- Name 5 themes
- location (absolute or relative), place, environment, movement and region
- Movement of ideas or behaviors from one cultural region to another
- Diffusion
- Making maps "GIS"
- Cartography
- Weather studier
- meteorology
- Changes in climets
- Climatology
- Where something is and why it is there
- Spatial perspective
- Condition of the atmosphere at any given time
- Weather
- Weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
- Climate
- Process by which Earth traps the heat
- Greenhouse Effect
- Weight of the air
- Air Pressure
- Unstable weather
- Front
- Giant stream of air
- Currents
- Open Land
- Rural
- Imaginary lines measure distance north and south
- equator