Map Skills
This design on a map shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
Earth has this many continents
What is seven?
Earth has this many oceans.
What is five?
The United States is made up of this many states.
What is 50?
This is a larger version of a town, with tall buildings and public transportation.
What is a city?
This part of a map tells you what the symbols mean.
What is a map key (or legend)?
This is the largest continent.
What is Asia?
This is the largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
There are this many countries in the world.
What is 193?
This is the community just outside a big city, with more space and quieter streets. →
What is a suburb?
These lines go side to side and tell how far north or south a place is.
What is latitude?
This is the smallest continent
What is Australia?
About this percent of Earth is covered by water.
What is 70 percent?
Of the 50 states, these two do not share a border with any other state.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
This kind of area is outside the suburbs, very spread out, and often has lots of wildlife.
What is a rural area?
This imaginary line around the middle of Earth is at 0° latitude.
What is the equator?
No one lives on this continent full-time
What is Antarctica?
This is the smallest ocean
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The region we live in.
What is New England or what is the Northeast?
About this fraction of everyone on Earth lives in a city
What is half?
Name 2 reasons why we use maps
1 reason we use maps is to see where we are currently in the world/area. Another reason is to find where unknown places or events are.
How are continents and countries different? List all the differences.
Countries have a government that is in control of the country.
Continents do not have a government in control of them.
Countries are smaller.
Continents are larger.
The ocean that is named after a country.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Unlike a state or country, a region does not have these official lines.
What are borders?
Put these in order from biggest to smallest: city, continent, state, country.
What is continent, country, state, city?