hello my name is Kylie and welcome to words about maps and globes in this
video you will learn 9 geography words these important words help us learn how
to find places on our planet are you ready to take these words for a spin
let's go
it's always hard to get these unfolded oh well there is always a map on my
phone finding our way around is very important we live on a very big planet
but it can be very challenging getting around in the neighborhood where you
live learning about where places are the
people that live there and the types of land and water that are there is called
geography geography can be a tricky word to learn and say but you will see it a
lot in your future learning adventures let's spell the world geography together
g e o g r a p h y geography now let's break it up into parts to make it easier to
say look at the first three letters G E o say G ah next there is a word hiding
out I wonder if you see it it is a word graph the pH sounds like F say graph the
ending y sounds like the long letter e e again that is G ah graph V geography
great you've learned a really important and an impressive word maps are one tool
used in geography let's spell map together M a P
on walls in books and even on the computer
maps are flat spell flat with me f l a t great flat maps are useful because they
can show the whole world at once just one country or even just a tiny part of
it like your neighborhood maps can be rolled up so they don't take up a lot of
space fold it up like this one
can help us learn about all the different places we know though that the
earth isn't flat spelled earth with me capital E a r t h
do you know what I know about the letter E it has to be capital for our earth
because it is the name of our planet in order to show our earth as the shape it
really is we can also use a special type of map called a globe let's spell globe
together g l o b e globe have you ever seen a globe
they are round like a ball and are usually on a stand that lets you spin
them around to see all the different parts our earth is a sphere a sphere is
a 3d shape like a ball spell sphere with me s p h e r e sphere it can be a tricky
word to remember because the pH sounds like the letter F on both maps and
globes you can see where there is land and where there is water spell land with
me l a n d land land is where we live a lot of maps and globes show the land
as either brown or green let's spell water together w a t e r water our earth
is made up of mostly water look at all that blue many places are listed on maps
and globes I have a friend who lives in the country of Japan on this map
hometown of Yamagata is marked spell places with me
p l a c e s places wow you've learned so many important words about how to find
places let's review all the words we've learned geography map flat earth globe
sphere land water and places it's very exciting to learn words that can help
you learn about our whole world now that you know them try and use them when you
see a map or a globe or use them when talking about traveling places
even if it is just a trip to the store you can practice these words and more
using our fun online games and quizzes until next time remember to always be
clever