Map Tools
Landforms
Geography Effects Life
Natural Disasters
Regions of the US
100
The small drawing on the map that helps you find directions, usually showing four main directions.
What is the Compass Rose
100
The highest type of landform on Earth.
What are mountains?
100
The reason people who live near oceans, rivers, and wetlands might build their homes on stilts high above the ground.
What are floods?
100
New Orleans needs to worry about these.
What are hurricanes?
100
Louisiana sits in this region of the United States.
What is the Southeast?
200
The small box that explains what symbols on the map stand for
What is the Key, or Legend?
200
The low land between hills and mountains.
What is a valley?
200
A job people might have if they live where the soil is good and there is plenty of rain.
What is farmer?
200
These are like hurricanes, only without the water.
What is a tornado?
200
Lots of mountains characterize this region of the United States.
What is the West Region?
300
The part of a map that tells you the subject of the map
What is the title?
300
This landform is a mountain with a flat top.
What is a plateau?
300
People who live along the coast near the ocean might have this job.
What is fisherman?
300
These will always hurt people, or harm their activities.
What are natural disasters?
300
The maple syrup you put on your waffles probably came from this region of the United States.
What is the Northeast?
400
The pattern of lines that cross each other forming boxes named by a letter and a number.
What is a grid?
400
This is the term for land surrounded completely by water.
What is an island?
400
A reason scientists might choose to live near wetlands.
What is to study the plants and animals that live there?
400
These can be dangerous when it's hot and dry outside.
What are wildfires?
400
This region of the United States only has four states in it.
What is the Southwest?
500
The tool on a map that helps you compare distances on a map with real distances in the world.
What is the map scale?
500
A large body of moving water that flows from one place to another.
What is a river?
500
A reason people's houses may look different in different areas.
What is to fit in with the local environment?
500
This earth-shaking event happens quite a lot in California.
What are earthquakes?
500
This Region of the United States is famous having the first record label owned by African Americans.
What is the Midwest?
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