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

What is a tool that shows the relationship between distance on a map and actual distance on the ground?

What is a scale?

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 state we live in?

What is South Carolina?

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
The five large bodies of water are called
What is oceans?
200
What are the directions on a compass called?
What is cardinal directions?
200

What is the capital of South Carolina?

What is Columbia?

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?
300
What is the coldest continent
What is Antarctica ?
300
This is used to 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

What are three different landforms that can we can see on a map?

What are mountains, rivers, lakes, oceans?

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 country is south of the U.S.A?

What is Mexico?

500

What state(s) border South Carolina?

What is North Carolina or Georgia?

500

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

What is a border?

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