Map Skills
On the world map
Vocabulary
Where you live
Trivia (
100

What is the shape of a globe?

What is a sphere or circle?

100
The seven largest bodies of land are called
What is continents?
100
A drawing showing a place from above is called this.
What is a map?
100

What is the name of the city where you live?

Wake Forest, Rolesville, Raleigh, Cary

100
What do you call the squares drawn on a map?
What is a map grid?
200
What would you use to figure out direction on a map?
What is the compass rose?
200

What are those 5 large blue shapes on maps and globes?

What is oceans?

200
What are the directions on a compass called?
What is cardinal directions?
200

What is the name of your school?

Jones Dairy Elementary?

200
What do you call a landform that is steep and has a flat surface.
What is a plateau?
300

What is the shape of a map?

What is flat or square?

300
What is the coldest continent
What is Antarctica ?
300

This symbol on a maps show the directions on a map.

What is the compass rose?

300
What is the next thing smaller than a state?
What is a city?
300
Which is the biggest of the 7 continents?
What is Asia?
400

Can you name three types of landforms we see on a map?

What are bay, lake, ocean, river, hill, island, mountain, plain ,plateau, desert, or valley?

400
What are the names of the three biggest countries that make up North America?
What are Canada, Mexico and the United States
400
This includes symbols that represent objects or places.
What is a map key or legend?
400
How many states are in the USA?
What is 50?
400
What do you call a piece of land that has water all around it?
What is an island?
500

How can you use a map key to help you read a map?

What is it tells you what all of the symbols on a map represent or mean?

500
What are the names of the seven continents?
What are North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and Antarctica?
500

What is a border?

What is an imaginary line between to places?

500

What state is North of North Carolina?

Virginia?

500
What do you call a line that separates two countries or two states?
What is a border?
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