Social Studies Vocab
Across
- 5. a nation with it's own government occupying a particular territory.
- 7. weather conditions in an are over a long period of time.
- 8. A fourth of the earth, divided by north, south, east, and west.
- 9. a specific geographic point on a map using latitude and longitude.
- 11. what are the factors that draw people to move to a different place?
- 15. it is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards the heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
- 16. what is the representation on a plane surface of any part of the surface of the earth or a celestial sphere?
- 17. what word means point of view?
- 18. it is an area or division, especially part of a country or the world, and has definable characteristics. It doesn't always have fixed boundaries.
- 19. this is any of the world's main continuous land masses.
Down
- 1. what is the natural environment of a place?
- 2. moving permanently to a foreign country.
- 3. what word describes a line that marks the limits of an area/a dividing line?
- 4. an accurate worldwide navigational and surveying facility based on signals from an array of satellites.
- 6. what are the factors that drive people out from a place?
- 7. the science/practice of drawing maps.
- 10. what word means the position of a place or entity based on its positive with respect to other locations?
- 12. what word means the location of a place based on a fixed point of the Earth?
- 13. this is the invisible lines running vertically around the Earth.
- 14. this is the invisible lines running horizontally around the Earth.