Map Skills
Weather/Climate
Physical/Cultural Geography
Early Native Americans
Florida's Waters
100
The part of the map that tells you what the map is all about
What is the map title?
100
This is the pattern of weather in a certain place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
These are any features that make up Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
100
This early Florida tribe farmed more than any other tribe, and lived in the northern part of Florida, by the Panhandle.
What are the Apalachee?
100
The longest river in Florida
What is the St. Johns River?
200
The part of the map you would use to find the distance between places on the map
What is the map scale?
200
Any type of water (snow, hail, sleet, rain, etc.) that falls to Earth
What is precipitation?
200
Florida is made up largely of this type of landform, where the earth is relatively flat with rolling hills.
What is a plain?
200
This tribe built tall wooden fences, called palisades, around their villages to protect them from invading tribes or animal attacks.
What is the Timucua Tribe?
200
The body of water to the east of Florida
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
The type of map that shows counties, states, major and minor cities, and important cultural features
What is a political map?
300
Florida's climate can be described as this.
What is warm and humid?
300
These are the three main regions of Florida's physical geography.
What are the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Atlantic Coastal Plain, and the Central Highlands.
300
These three tribes built middens, which were piles of discarded bones and shells.
What are the Tocobaga, Tequesta, and Calusa tribes?
300
The body of water to the South of Florida.
What is the Straits of Florida?
400
The type of map that shows landforms such as lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, and plains
What is a physical map?
400
This type of severe weather causes plants and animals to get dehydrated, crops to die, and local governments to issue limits to water usage.
What is a drought?
400
Theme parks, football stadiums, zoos, and beaches attract people from all over the world, and are very good for the economy of a state. These places are often referred to as this type of cultural feature.
What are tourist attractions?
400
These are the three ways that ALL FIVE tribes acquired their food. Men and Women participated in different ways to help, but they each did their parts to assist the tribe in acquiring enough food to sustain them. Even children helped with some aspects of the food acquiring!
What are hunting, gathering, and fishing?
400
The largest lake in Florida
What is Lake Okeechobee?
500
These are the grid systems on a map that measure the distance east and west of the prime meridian, and the distance north and south of the equator (two answers).
What are longitude (east and west) and latitude (north and south).
500
This type of severe weather includes heavy rainfall and severe winds. These can cause massive amounts of damage to buildings and animal habitats. They can also put people in danger, and have massive storm surges that cause flooding.
What are hurricanes?
500
This affects the type of food you eat, what you wear, the kind of home you live in, and what you do for fun.
What is geography?
500
These are the reasons that the Calusa and Tequesta did very little, if any, farming.
What is the fact that the land where they lived, and made their villages, was very sandy and not very fertile (not good for growing crops). They got most of what they needed from the fishing that they did.
500
The most productive estuary in Florida
What is Charlotte Harbor?
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