Georgia Studies Chapter 1 Crossword
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
                                                       
 
 
Down: 1) Natural features on the earth; such as mountains, rivers, and oceans. 2) One of 24 divisions of the earthused for measuring time. Each division marks the approximate distance that the earth rotates in one hour. 3) The number of people who live within a unit, such as a square mile, of an area. 6) Features on the earth created by people, such as boundaries, towns, and roads. 7) The halfways points between cardinal directions.9) The imaginary straight line through the earth from pole to pole around which the earth rotates.11) The 180° meridian halfway aroundt he world from the Prime Meridian. It marks the starting point for counting time on earth. 12) A mapmaker. 14) The lines that determine location from 0° to 180° east and west of the Prime Meridian.15) All of the things that surround us. 16) The study of the earth's physical features and how they relate to living things. 17) A round body, such as the earth, on which every point of the surface is the same distance from its center. 20) Includes a central space and the densely settled urban fringe next to or around it. The combined population must be at least 50,000. 24) A series of rows placed over a series of columns used to help locate places.26) The meridian (0° longitude) that runs through Greenwich, England, from which all other longitude is measured.27) Letters or numbers used to identify location on a grid. 28) Another name for lines of longitidue, which extend around the earth from pole to pole. 29) Imaginary line that circles the earth at its widest part and divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.30) Refers to areas of the countryside with a low population density and not considered urband as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. 32) Travel back and forth in order to go to work or to school. Across: 4) The 60 equal divisions that make up on a degree of a circle. 5) The position of one place in relation to another. 8) The exact sport on the earth's surface where a place is found. 10) An area of the earth with shared physical or cultural features.13) One of 7 great divisions of land on the globe. 18) An area of land that has legal boundaries an its own government. 19) Generally, refers to any city or community with at least 2,500 inhabitants. 21) A community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory of government. 22) Four main direction pointson a compass.23) Refers to a heavily populated residential area near a large city. 25) Another names for lines of latitude.31) Refers to a large urban area consisting of a central city and communities dependent on that city for jobs, services, shopping, and entertainment.33) The 60 equal units that make up a minute of a circle.34) A metropolitan region consisting of a central city of at least 50,000 people. 35) A term used by geographers to describe an area of the earth with shared characteristics that makes it different from other area of the earth. 36) The 360 equal divisions of a circle. 37) The parallel lines that determine location from 0° to 90° north and south of the Equator.
 

 

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