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Africa animals Ans.-The Arctic Asia Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Plain Australia basin British BUTLER'S ELEMENTARY GEOGRAPHY called Cape capital and largest Caspian Sea cattle centre channel chief seaport chiefly climate cold colonies Colorado coral cotton DESERT earth east eastern Empire England equator Europe exported extend fertile glacier globe grain grand division Greenland Greenwich Gulf Gulf of Mexico Hemisphere India islands Isles isthmus Lake land largest city Longitude Mediterranean Sea meridians Mexico Mississippi River moisture moulded Mountain System mountain-ranges Name nearly North America northern noted Pacific Ocean peaks peninsula plateau Port principal ranges region REVIEW LESSON river drains river flows Rocky Mountain System Rocky Mountains salt seaport Sierra slope snow southeast southern STATUTE MILES Strait streams surface territory TROPIC TROPIC OF CAPRICORN United valley vast volcanoes warm western coast Western Continent Western Highlands winds
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Page 46 - Mexico on the south; and from the Atlantic Ocean on the east, to the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Page 8 - Now, boys ,what is the axis of the earth?" "The axis of the earth," said Johnny, "is an imaginary line which passes from one pole to another, and on it the earth revolves.
Page 129 - ... Kinghan range, and joined below by the Sungari from Manchuria, the Amur is a great river, destined to be of the utmost importance as the highway of Russian trade in eastern Siberia. It is navigable by steamers up to Chita on the Ingoda, a tributary of the Shilka, a distance of nearly 2500 miles by river. The two great rivers of China, the Hoang-ho, or " Yellow river," and the Yang-tse-Kiang, the "son of the ocean...
Page 20 - What is a river ? A river is a large stream of water flowing through the land.
Page 22 - The resultant course of the wind is from south-east to north-west. is wind from the south-east, in the southern hemisphere, and from the north-east, in the northern hemisphere.
Page 22 - ... from right to left in the Northern Hemisphere, and from left to right in the Southern, the...
Page 31 - ... at an equal distance from the two poles. The equator divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres. Latitude is the distance of a place north or south from the equator. . Circles drawn parallel to the equator are called parallels of latitude. The four remarkable parallels of latitude are the arctic circle, the antarctic circle, the tropic of Cancer, and the tropic of Capricorn. The arctic and antarctic circles and the tropics divide the globe into five zones ; the torrid zone,...
Page 31 - The latitude is the distance in degrees north or south of the equator and the longitude is the distance east or west of the prime meridian (the meridian of Greenwich).
Page 31 - Pole and moving south, the other named lines are the Arctic Circle, the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Antarctic Circle.
Page 104 - ROME is the capital of the kingdom, and the residence of the Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.