Things on a Map
Directions that are North(N), East(E), South(S), and West(W).
What are the four Cardinal Directions?
An imaginary line that divides Earth or another space-like body, by West and East.
What is an Equator?
A body of water that is surrounded by land.
What is a Lake?
An environmental land where animals live and survive in.
What is a Biome?
The study of physical features that is in the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity that it affects and is by these, including the among of populations and resources, used land, and industries.
What is Geography?
The Intercardinal Directions
What kind of directions are, Northeast(NE), Northwest(NW), Southeast(SE), and Southwest(SE)?
A Latitude or Longitude that is a unit, used to define points on the Earth's surface or on the space-like sphere.
What is Degrees(As in location)?
The small width passage of water connecting two seas or large waters.
What is a Strait(In Geography)?
A part of the ocean that forces into land
What is a Gulf(In geography)?
A physical structure of land that is surrounded by water.
What is an Island?
A list of symbols that are on the map that is suppose to represent something such as mountains.
What is Key(Legend)?
A line that is geographically referenced, that passes through the Royal Observatory, Green which, in London, England.
What is a Prime Meridian?
An ample small arm of the sea where the land curves inward.
What is a Bay?
A group of rivers that are formed from wetlands that empty their water and sediments into another body of water.
What is a Delta?
A group of islands.
What is an Archipelago?
Lines that are imaginary, that divide the Earth. They run east to west, but measure your distance north or south.
What are Lines of Latitude?
Something that is referred to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the analogous distance on the ground.
What is a Scale(on a map)?
A length of water that is wider than a narrow passage passage of water connecting two seas or large waters.
What is a Channel?
A low area that is between a mountain and a hill.
What is a Valley?
A small width of land connecting two larger areas across an area of water by which they are otherwise separated.
What is an Isthmus?
Lines of Longitude
What kind of lines that are imaginary, divide the Earth, but run north to south pole to pole, and measure the distance east or west?
The shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth that is misrepresented.
What is Distortion(on a map)?
A man-made waterway that is created for navigation that people could cross the water with boats or ships.
What is a Canal?
A physical structure of water protected by natural or man-made barriers, providing safe anchorage and allowing the transfer of cargo and passengers between ships and the shore.
What is a Harbor?
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a Cape(in geography)?