6th Grade Geography Review | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

English 45 Public

Ancient Civ.

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Absolute or Relative? Mexico is south of Texas.

relative

10

The following is NOT absolute location.

An exact location on a map.

5610 Gulfton Houston, Texas 77099

76 degrees North, 42 degrees West

My friend's house is three houses down on the left.

5

The imaginary lines that run parallel running pole to pole.

longitudes/meridians

15

What divides a globe into Eastern and Western Hemispheres at 0° longitude?

Prime Meridian

15

Imaginary lines running east to west on the Earth.

latitudes/parallels

10

Where are the tropics located?

between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn

15

Where can polar regions be found?

North and South Poles

15

What is a continent?

large mass of land

15

What are the colored areas called?

continents

10

What is an ocean?

large body of water

5

A large body of saltwater surrounded by land

sea

10

A globe is a ___________ of the Earth.

model

15

What is an imaginary line through the center of the Earth at 23.5°?

axis

10

Dividing line between light and darkness

terminator

10

This imaginary line circles the Earth and divides into the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It is halfway between the North and South Poles.

equator

5

To go around another object or Earth's year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Takes 365 1/4 days.

axis

Rotation

year

Revolution

10