🗺️United States
This western state is home to the Grand Canyon.
What is Arizona?
It is the coldest, windiest, and iciest continent on Earth.
What is Antarctica?
This city serves as the capital of the United States.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This is a mountain that opens downward to a pool of molten rock below the surface of the earth.
What is a Volcano?
This tool on a map shows the cardinal directions: North, South, East, and West.
What is a Compass Rose?
It is the largest state in the United States by land.
What is Alaska?
It is the only continent that is also its own single country.
What is Australia?
This European capital city is famous for the Eiffel Tower.
What is Paris?
This is the tallest mountain peak in the world.
What is Mount Everest.
This box on a map explains what the symbols, lines, and colors mean.
What is a Map Key? (or Legend)
This famous river flows past New Orleans and empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
This is the largest and deepest ocean on the planet.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Located in Asia, this is the capital city of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
This massive African desert is the largest hot desert on Earth.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is a book of maps.
What is an Atlas?
These five massive freshwater lakes sit on the border between the US and Canada.
What are the Great Lakes?
: This imaginary line cuts directly through the middle of the Earth, dividing it into North and South.
What is the Equator?
London is the capital city of this island nation.
What is the United Kingdom? (or England)
This South American rainforest produces about 20% of the world's oxygen.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This part of a map helps you calculate the real-world distance between two places.
What is a Map Scale?
This mountain range stretches along the eastern United States from Maine to Georgia.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This continent is home to the countries of Brazil, Argentina, and Peru.
What is South America?
This city is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile River?
These imaginary lines run east and west around the globe to measure distance from the equator.
What are Lines of Latitude?