Parts of a map
A label on a map that shows the four cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
A piece of land surrounded by a part of the ocean
What is an island?
Large bodies of salt water that are usually smaller than an ocean and partially enclosed by land
What are seas?
A broad, recessed coastal inlet where the land curves inward
What is a bay?
Areas classified according to the species that live in those locations
What are biomes?
North, east, south, and west are the names of these directions
What are the four cardinal directions?
Extensive areas of flat upland usually bounded by a steep slope on all sides, but sometimes enclosed by mountains
What are plateaus?
A big body of water surrounded by water
What is a lake?
A river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake
What is a tributary?
The study of places and the relationships between people and their environments
What is geography?
Northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest are the names of these directions
What are the four intercardinal directions?
A low area of land between hills or mountains. Has a river or stream running through it often.
What is a valley?
A narrow waterway between two pieces of land connecting two large bodies of water
What are straits in geography?
An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land, larger than a bay
What is a gulf?
A piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water
What is a peninsula?
Ratios of inches on the map corresponding to inches, feet, or miles on the ground
What are scales on maps?
Narrow landforms jutting into water
What is a cape in geography?
Length of water wider than a strait, joining two seas
What is a channel?
Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water
What is a delta?
Lists of symbols and colors that explains what they mean on a map
What are keys (or legends)?
The misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth
What is a distortion in a map?
Groups of islands that are close together
What are archipelagoes?
An narrow arm of the sea that is landlocked
What is a loch?
Long, narrow inlets of water that were carved by glaciers
What is a fjord?
An imaginary line dividing the earth into the eastern and western hemispheres
What is the prime meridan?