4th grade history/geography
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- Tropic of Cancer
- located at 23 ½° N
- Arctic Circle
- located at 66 ½° N
- tropical region
- area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; the climate here is usually very warm
- Antarctic Circle
- located at 66 ½° S
- meridians of longitude
- lines that run along the globe from north to south; they are not parallel; all meridians meet at the North and South Poles
- trees, soil, water, oil, sunlight
- some of our natural resources
- parallels of latitude
- lines that circle the globe from east to west; they are parallel to the equator
- (1) geographer
- a person who studies the earth
- South Pole
- the southernmost point on the earth; it is located on Antarctica
- temperate regions
- the areas between the Tropics and the Circles; the climate here changes with the seasons
- North Pole
- the northernmost point on the earth; it is located in the Arctic Ocean
- Tropic of Capricorn
- located at 23 ½° S
- landform map
- shows how the surface of an area looks
- climate
- the normal condition of the atmosphere near the earth's surface in a particular area
- temperature and altitude
- two major influences in climate
- natural resources
- things that God put on the earth for man to use and to enjoy
- polar regions
- the areas around the Poles; the climate here is usually very cold
- Matthew Maury
- "the Pathfinder of the Seas"; he mapped the ocean currents because he read and believed Psalm 8:6-8 about the "paths of the sea"
- Roald Amundsen
- discovered the South Pole
- equator
- an imaginary line that circles the earth halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole; it is located at 0°
- hemisphere
- half sphere; the equator divides the earth into the Northern Hemisphere, where North America and most of the earth's land are located, and the Southern Hemisphere; the prime meridian and the international date line divide the earth into the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, where North America is located