Map Skills
A 3D version of a map.
What is a globe?
Where a something or someone is.
What is location?
The natural environment that tell us what a place looks like.
What are physical characteristics?
The ideas people have about how to use the physical environment.
What are human characteristics?
An area with similar physical or human characteristics.
What is a region?
Drawings of places around the world.
What is a map?
There are the horizontal lines running east and west, around the globe.
What are latitude lines?
The seven large areas of land on our planet.
What are continents?
The production of goods in factories.
What is industry?
A region is made up of three countries of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
What is North America?
It tells us what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend or key for?
The imaginary line in the middle of the globe that divides the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
It is what we call the plants, animals, and climate of a place.
What is a biome?
Growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
The continent that has the longest river in the world. This river is the Nile River.
What is Africa?
Things such as a title, a legend, a scale and a compass rose are examples of these things found on maps.
What are map tools?
This describes exactly where something is or the exact location of a place.
What is absolute location?
The weather pattern of an area and what helps people make decisions about food, clothing, and shelter.
What is climate?
Another type of economic activity that includes physical and virtual work environments.
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What are services?
Even though is so cold, it has an active volcano, where you can see lava flow. It is also the driest and windiest continent.
What is Antarctica?
It shows the cardinal directions of north, south, east, and west. It also shows intermediate directions, like northeast or southwest.
What is a compass rose?
A map divided into small squares to form a grid that is labeled with letters and numbers.
What is a map grid?
The Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern.
What are the names of the 5 oceans?
Residential, Industrial, Commercial and Recreational
What are the 4 forms of land use?
It is the only continent that is also its own country and is an island completely surrounded by water.
What is Australia?