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Geography
Grade 4 Geography Vocabulary
15 cards·by rosedebello
Earth's largest bodies of water
Oceans
One of Earth’s seven great bodies of land-Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe,
North America, and South America
Continent
half of a sphere; one of the four hemispheres of Earth-Northern, Southern, Eastern, and
Western Hemispheres
Hemisphere
An imaginary line that lies halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole, at 0° latitude
Equator
The main directions of the globe: north, south, east, and west.
Cardinal directions
A small drawing on a map that shows directions.
Compass Rose
The directions between the cardinal directions-northeast, southeast, southwest,
northwest
Intermediate directions
Anything that stands for something else.
Symbol
An explanation of what the symbols on a map represent.
Map Key
The relationship between the distance shown on a map and the distance on Earth.
Scale
A small map or globe set onto another map that shows where the main map is located.
Locator
A map that shows information such as cities, capitals, states, and countries.
Political map
A map that shows natural features of the Earth.
physical map
A map that shows the landforms of the area.
Landform map
A map that shows how to travel from one place to another.
Transportation map