Parts of a Map
Global Grid
Landforms
World Map
A mix
100
The subject of the map
What is the Title?
100
The 0 degree line of Latitude
What is the equator?
100
A body of land surrounded by water
What is an island?
100
What is North America?
100
A map that includes geographical features.
What is a physical map?
200
Box that explains the meaning of the symbols and colors
What is the Key or legend?
200
The line that divides the world into East and West
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Narrow land that connects two large land masses and separates two bodies of water
What is an isthmus?
200
What is Europe?
200
A map that includes the boarders of countries and possibly states
What is a Political Map?
300
The parts of a map the shows direction
What is the compass rose?
300
Two numbers together that delineate (show) an exact location
What are coordinates?
300
A raised flat area of land
What is a Plateau?
300
The ocean that is to the EAST of North America
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
A dry area of land with very little rainfall
What is a desert?
400
A part of a map the represents something in real life
What is a symbol?
400
The coordinates of Timbuktu.
What is (16N, 3W)?
400
What is a peninsula?
400
The continent to the South of Asia
What is Australia?
400
The body of water which is to the south of Asia
What is the Indian ocean?
500
A map within a map that shows an area distant from the map, but related OR shows an area enlarged OR shows the subject in relation to a larger area.
What is an inset map?
500
The exact location of New Orleans.
what is 30N, 90W?
500
An example of a
What is a canyon?
500
The Continent absent from this map
What is Antarctica?
500
The coordinates of Abidj
What is 5N, 3 W?