| A | B |
|---|
| geography | study of the earth and its people |
| environment | surroundings |
| region | areas of the world with common characteristics |
| culture | way of life (language, religion,dress) |
| continent | earth's largest land masses |
| country | land with boundaries, people with a government |
| landlocked | country that doesn't touch an ocean or an ocean-accessed sea |
| cartographer | map-maker |
| oceanographer | scientist that studies oceans |
| geologist | scientist that studies earth and its history |
| meteorologist | scientist that studies weather |
| demographer | 'people counter' |
| physical map | map that shows natural features |
| political map | map that shows countries and cities |
| projection | way of putting a round globe on a flat map |
| Mercator | map useful for longtitude and latitude but distorted at poles |
| cardinal directions | N,S,E,W |
| intermediate directions | NE, NW, SE, SW |
| compass rose | shows direction on a map |
| scale | show relationship of units on map to units on land |
| largest continent | Asia |
| smallest continent | Australia |
| continent without a country | Australia |
| continent with only one country | Australia |
