Waterways
A body of water that is surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
A group of islands
What is an archipelago?
Traveling from place to place or exchange of goods and ideas.
What is movement?
A symbol on a map indicating the cardinal directions of North, South, East and West.
What is a compass rose?
A type of map showing natural landscape features such as landforms and bodies of water.
What is a physical map?
a wide, natural stream of freshwater that flows into the ocean.
What is a river?
A piece of land completely surrounded by water
What is an island?
An area that includes places that all have something in common.
What is a region?
A list of symbols that appear on a map.
A type of map that shows borders between states.
What is a political map?
A huge body of saltwater that covers about 71% of Earth's surface.
What is the ocean?
A dry area where few plants grow and receives very little rainfall.
What is a dessert?
Using latitude and longitude or in relation to another place.
What is location?
Coordinate system used to measure the position or location of any place on earth from North to South.
What is latitude?
A type of map that indicates how many people live in what areas of the land.
What is a population map?
A protected body of water used as a place of safety for ships.
What is a harbor?
What is a plateau?
What it is like when you get there.
What is place?
Coordinate system used to measure the position or location of any place on earth from East to West.
What is longitude?
A type of map that shows information on a particular topic or theme.
What is a thematic map?
A wetland shaped like a triangle that is formed as rivers empty water, deposits, and sediment into a bigger body of water such as ocean.
What is a delta?
A narrow strip of land that connects two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
How humans interact with the environment, changing it or adapting to it.
What is human-environment interaction?
The imaginary line around the middle of the earth halfway between the North Pole and South Pole.
What is the equator?
A type of map that shows detailed physical features of an area of land (3D style).
What is a topographical map?