Maps
The figure on maps displaying the caridnal directions
What is, a compass rose?
The study of earths physical feature and its atmosphere
What is, geography?
The narrow passage of water connecting two seas or large waters.
What is, a strait?
A portion of the ocean that penetrates land
What is, a Gulf?
A low area that's between a hill and mountain.
What is, a valley?
A list of symbols that appear on a map
What is, a key?
An imaginary line around the middle of the planet.
What is, the equator?
An artificial waterway designed for navigation that people could cross the water with boats or ships.
What is, a canal?
A body of water sheltered by natural or artificial barriers, providing safe anchorage and permitting the transfer of cargo and passengers between ships and the shore.
What is, a harbor?
A rising landform that grows higher than the area around it on one side.
Shows the relationship of different points on a map
What is, a scale(on a map)?
Geographical reference line that passes through the royal observatory, Greenwich, In London England
What is, the Prime Meridian
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is, a Cape (in geography)?
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is, a lake?
An area of land known by the types of animals, vegetation, soil, and climate located there.
What is, a Biome?
North, east, south, and west?
What is, cardinal directions?
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)?
Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
What is, Delta?
A lake or inlet of sea.
What is, a lock/Loch?
A body of land surrounded by water.
What is, an island?
North east, north west, south east, south west.
What is, intercardinal directions?
A group of islands.
What is, an archipelago.
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
What is, a Fjord?
The ocean by the party surrounding land, with about 50 seas that include water bodies.
What is, The Sea?
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
What is, a Bay?