Lesson VI
What is Geography?
A description of the earth\’s surface.
What is the Earth?
The planet or body on which we live.
What is the shape of the Earth?
Round like a ball.
Of what is the Earth\’s surface composed?
Land and water.
A Map of A World. Photo by Bruce Barone. |
What is a map?
A picture of the whole, or part, of the Earth\’s surface.
What are the directions on a Map?
Toward the top, North; toward the bottom, South;
to the right East; to the left, West.
In what direction from the center of the picture is the Island?
North.
From \”First Lessons in Geography,\”
Monteith\’s Geographical Series,
A.S. Barnes & Co., 1884
Found in Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop
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