Map Skills
A sphere that is a model of Earth and most accurately represents it called.
What is a globe?
The types of plants in an area or a region.
What is vegetation?
A story that explains where ancestors of tribe members came from.
What is an origin story?
The study of our physical surroundings and how humans interact with them.
What is natural geography?
A tool or instrument for finding directions.
What is a compass?
Something from nature that is useful to people, such as soil, water, vegetation, and minerals?
What is natural resources?
A circular area, sometimes underground, where tribe members talk, work, or perform religious ceremonies.
What is a kiva?
The organization that makes the laws in a country, state, or community and has the power to enforce them.
What is government?
An imaginary line called a parallel that runs west and east around Earth.
What is Latitude?
A change or adjustment in a way of life that allows people to survive in a particular environment?
What is an adaptation?
Movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new place in another country or area.
What is migration?
Everything that surrounds a given area?
What is environment?
An imaginary line called a meridian that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is longitude?
A physical feature on Earth’s surface such as a mountain or a plain.
What is a landform?
Weather patterns, such as those in temperature, rainfall, and wind, measured over time in an area.
What is climate?
A part of Earth’s surface including landmasses and bodies of water.
What is a physical feature?