Continents
Name the largest continent.
How many Oceans are on Earth?
What is 5.
This type of map shows the borders between countries.
What is a political map.
What is the reason for having a map scale on a map.
What is to show how far away or big things are in real life.
This is distortion.
What is when an object loses its original shape and size.
This continent is also an island and a country.
What is Australia
What Ocean separates Washington DC from Europe?
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
This type of maps shows where mountains are located.
What is an elevation map.
List the 4 cardinal directions.
What are North, South, East and West.
This is an advantage of globes.
What is the shape of a globe is the same as the Earth. They are both spheres. OR
There is no distortion on a globe.
This continent is home to the world's biggest rainforest and the world's biggest river.
What is South America.
What Ocean would you swim in if you visited a beach in California?
What is the Pacific.
This type of map shows which states get a lot of rainfall each year.
What is a rainfall map
Draw a Compass Rose on your whiteboard.
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This is what we call half of a globe.
What is a hemisphere.
This continent is the most crowded.
Hint: It does not have the most people - it has the most people per square mile.
What is Europe.
This is the warmest Ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean.
This map shows where most of the people in the United States live.
What is a population density map.
The difference between a word scale and linear scale.
What is a word scale uses only words and a linear scale uses a straight line.
This is an advantage of maps.
What is maps can show small areas and show things in greater detail.
Maps are easier to take places.
This continent is a frozen desert.
What is Antarctica.
This is why geographers named five oceans on Earth.
What is geographers gave different names to sections of water separated by land.
List 3 things that can (should) be found on maps.
What is a title, map scale, compass rose, legend or map key.
These are pictures on a map to stand for something in the real world.
What are symbols.
This is a disadvantage of maps.
What is distortion.