| A | B |
|---|
| Asia | largest continent |
| Africa | continent south of Europe |
| North America | our continent |
| Europe | continent Columbus sailed from |
| South America | continent south of the Caribbean Sea |
| Australia | continent famous for kangaroos |
| Antarctica | continent surrounding South Pole |
| Arctic | ocean surrounding North Pole |
| Atlantic | ocean to our east |
| Pacific | largest ocean |
| Indian | ocean named for a country in Asia |
| 5Ps of social studies | people, places, past, present, peace |
| Boston | our city |
| Massachusetts | our state |
| United States of America | our country |
| globe | spherical (ball-shaped) representation of the whole earth |
| grid | pattern formed by vertical and horizontal lines |
| vertical | lines going up and down |
| horizontal | lines going across |
| hemisphere | half the earth |
| equator | imaginary line at zero degrees latitude |
| Prime Meridian | imaginary line at zero degrees longitude |
| latitude | imaginary lines that measure distance north/south of the equator |
| longitude | imaginary lines that measure distance east/west of the Prime Meridian |
| climate | weather patterns of an area |
| geography | study of the earth and its relationship to people, animals and plants live on it |
| coordinates | letter and number pairs that indicate exact location |
| cardinal directions | north, south, east, west |
| intermediate directions | northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest |
| location | exact or relative position of a place |
