True or false
A Compass Rose is a symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions.
What is True
the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is Geography
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 Distortion (on a map)
what's a key (legend)?
What is a list of symbols that appear on the map
What is an Isthmus?
What is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
The four cardinal directions are north (N), east (E), south (S), and west (W), at 90° angles on the compass rose.
What is True
an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.
What is Equator
wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
What is a delta
what's an Archipelago?
What is a group of islands
What is a lake?
What is a large body of water surrounded by land.
The four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions are not formed by bisecting the above, giving: northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW) and northwest (NW).
What is false. The four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions ARE formed by bisecting the above, giving: northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW) and northwest (NW).
a unit of latitude or longitude used to define points on the earth's surface or on the celestial sphere.
What is Degrees (as in location)
long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
What is a fjord
What's a bay?
What is a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
What's a Lock or Loch?
What is a lake or an inlet of the sea.
Lines of Longitude are imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run east to west, but measure your distance north or south.
What is false. Lines of LATITUDE are imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run east to west, but measure your distance north or south.
geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.
What is Prime Meridian
a body of water sheltered by natural or artificial barriers. Harbors can provide safe anchorage and permit the transfer of cargo and passengers between ships and the shore.
What is a Harbor
What is a canal?
What is an artificial waterway designed for navigation that people could cross the water with boats or ships.
What's a Peninsula?
What is the portion of a land that is nearby water that is connected to a larger body by an isthmus.
Lines of Latitude are imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.
What is false. Lines of LONGITUDE imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.
refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground- map scale.
what is Scale (on a map)
A body of land surrounded by water.
What is an island
What is a Cape (in geography)
What is a cape is a high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a sea?
What is the ocean by the party surrounding land and there are about 50 seas that include water bodies.