Features
Large natural stream of water that flows over land
What is a River?
Drawing of where things are located
What is a Map?
The continent which we live on
North America
What is a volcano?
N on a compass
What is North?
Tall Land that rises above its surroundings (high elevation)
What is a Mountain?
A sandy stretch of coast
beach
Tall landforms on the West side of Virginia. (the Appalachian _______________)
Mountains
A bump that is higher than the land around it
What is a Hill?
S on a compass
What is South?
Long ditch in Earth's surface, between 2 mountains
What is a Valley?
A large inland body of water ( a place you can go fishing)
Lake
The Continent South of where we live.
South America
Small body of running water (smaller than a river)
What is a stream?
E on a compass
What is East?
A large relatively flat area of land
Plain
The collection of the symbols used on a map is called a ____________________
Key / Legend
Continent with countries like Spain, Great Britain, Italy, France
Europe
Areas of salt water, bigger than a gulf
What is an ocean?
W on a compass
What is West?
A land mass- smaller than a continent surrounded by water.
What is a Island?
A piece of land that extends into a body of water and is connected to the mainland.
Peninsula
The Chesapeake ______________ is on the East coast of Virginia.
Bay
Part of the ocean that comes to land, smaller than an ocean, bigger than a bay
What is a gulf?
Tool for finding direction
What is a compass?