Atlas/Maps
The part of an Atlas that tells you where to find countries.
What is the Index?
This is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
A physical feature that made N. America successful at trade.
What is the Mississippi River?
This ancient culture developed the potato.
Who are the Inca?
What are Latitude lines?
The capital city of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
This is the largest mountain range in North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
What is the Amazon River?
This ancient culture developed the concept of zero.
Who are the Maya?
66 1/2 North is the degree of this line.
What is the Arctic circle?
The largest mountain range in South America.
What are the Andes?
This Ocean is located near Antarctica.
What is the Southern Ocean?
A piece of land that has water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
This was the conquistador of the Inca.
Who is Pizarro?
These climate zones have 4 seasons.
What are the Temperate Zones?
It tells how far apart things on a map are.
What is a Scale?
The European country that sent treasure seekers to Latin America.
Who is Spain?
A skinny piece of land that connects two large pieces of land.
What is an Isthmus?
This conquistador conquered the Aztec.
Who is Cortez?
This is the line at zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A box on a map that tells you what symbols on the map mean.
What is a Legend/Key?
The country that colonized the east coast of North America. (13 original colonies)
Who was England?
A group of Islands. (like Hawaii)
What is an Archipelago?
This is where the Maya lived.
23 1/2 south is the degree of this line.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?