7Th Grade Geography Study Guide

Front 1

What is cartography?

Back 1

The study and practice of making maps

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what is a cartographer?

Back 2

A person who makes maps

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What is a map?

Back 3

A map is a flat drawing of a place or part of the world

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Were are the oldest maps?

Back 4

They are preserved in Babylonian ( present day iraq). Made out of clay tablets from about 2300 bc.

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Who made the earliest maps?

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The earliest paper maps were made by the early Greeks.

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What shape did the Greek philosophers think the Earth was?

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Many Greek philosophers considered the Earth to be in a spherical shape and this also influenced their cartography.

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What is a compass?

Back 7

A compass rose tells the directions (which way) on a map.

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What is a legend?

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The map legend shows the symbols on a map and gives their meaning.

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latitude and longitude

Back 9

latitude-east to west

longitude-north to south

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Maryland capitol

Back 10

Annapoils

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Governor

Back 11

Larry Hogan

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Motto

Back 12

Manley deeds, womanly words

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Bird

Back 13

Baltimore oriole

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Crustacean

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Maryland blue crab

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Reptile

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Diamondback terrapin

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Song

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Maryland! My Maryland!

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Tree

Back 17

white oak

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Nickname

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Free state and Old line state

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origin of name

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In honor of Henrietta Maria

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Largest city

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BALTIMORE

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what are Maryland residents called?

Back 21

Marylander

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Maryland is often called american in miniature. Why?

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There are beaches, mountains, plains, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay

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what states border Maryland?

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Delaware , West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and DC

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What is the straight border called?

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Mason Dixon line

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What is the quite crooked border crooked?

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because it follows the Potomac Rivier

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do other states have a width so narrow

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no

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WHAT IS AMERICAS LARGEST ESTAUARY

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the Chesapeake Bay once the Susquehanna River until the Atlantic Ocean flooded it. this flooding was caused by glaciers formed what Marylanders proudly call THE BAY

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What type of water is in the Chesapeake Bay

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salt and fresh water it is called brackish

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What is the part of Maryland near the Bay called

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Tidewater Maryland

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piedmont plateau- beging at the fall line

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Most rivers in Maryland can be navigated up to the point where there are waterfalls. an imaginary line connecting the falls of each river would make the fall line

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Atlantic coastal plain

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+ lowland with few hill

+soil is light and sandy and good for farming

+many rivers and creeks

+divided in half by the chesapeake bay to form the Eastern Shore and the western shore

+mild temp.

+marshes on the Eastern shore

+flat land on the Eastern Shore

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Appalachian

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+begins with the Catoctin MT.

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physical

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a description of the Earth's surface. where countries are located and the climate, landforms, bodies of water, plants and animals

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cultural

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the study of a population. their language, religion, economics and government

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meaning of geography

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ge- earth

grapho-write

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physical map

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depict mountains, rivers, and lakes. areas of water area colored blue. and elevation

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political map

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includes state and national boundaries and national capitals