Map Skills
What two hemispheres does the Equator separate?
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What continent can Lake Vostok and the Transantarctic Mountains be found on?
What is Antarctica?
This ocean is the southernmost ocean on a map or globe.
What is the Southern Ocean?
These mountains are located along the west coast of South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
What body of water lies between Europe, Asia, and Africa?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This imaginary vertical line separates the Western and Eastern Hemispheres?
What is the Prime Meridian?
You can snorkel in the Pacific Ocean to see the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of this continent.
What is Australia?
This ocean can be found off the coast of Virginia and North America?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This land feature can be found surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea and is part of the continent of Europe.
What is the Italian Peninsula?
What continent can Lake Vostok be found on?
What is Antarctica?
This tool shows what the symbols on a map stand for.
What is Map Legend or Map Key?
What continent is located in all four Hemispheres?
What is Africa?
This ocean is the largest and is usually written twice on a map.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Let's go visit kangaroos with their joeys in the wild. What continent and place would we need to visit?
What is the Outback in Australia?
Want to go swimming in the Great Lakes? What intermediate direction would you need to travel from Virginia and what continent are you visiting?
What is northwest and North America?
This map tool shows cardinal and intermediate directions.
What is a Compass Rose?
This continent is home to the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts and the world's largest mountain.
What is Asia?
If you travel by boat to the North Pole to see the polar bears, this ocean will bring you closest to their habitat.
What is the Arctic?
Name a coldest desert you learned about and the continent it is located on.
What is the Gobi desert in Asia?
What two countries does the Rio Grande form a border for?
What is The United States and Mexico?
What is half of a sphere or globe?
What is hemisphere?
Want to see many different animals and plant life in a huge forest that has the second longest river running through it? Name the place and continent you would need to visit?
What is the Amazon Rainforest in South America?
You just climbed Mount Everest and travelled south through India to relax at the beach. What mountain range and ocean will you visit?
What is the Himalayan Mountains and the Indian Ocean?
Name the hottest desert and the continent it is located on.
What is the Sahara Desert in Africa?
Name a water feature on each of the seven continent.
What is North America?: Mississippi River, Rio Grande, Great Lakes, or James River
What is South America?: Amazon River
What is Europe?: the Mediterranean Sea
What is Asia?: the Yellow River or Huang He
What is Africa?: The Niger or Nile River
What is Australia?: the Murray River
What is Antarctica?: Lake Vostok