Types of Maps
This map shows the borders between countries, states, counties, and districts.
What is a political map?
These are smaller than mountains, but still have a distinct slope.
What are hills.
What is North America?
This ocean is located to the very north on the globe.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
What is the lithosphere?
This map contains words like tundra, arid region, and rainforest.
What is a climate map?
This along with mountains, hills, and plains make up the four major landforms.
What are plateaus?
This continent has a large land border with Europe.
What is Asia?
This ocean divides Africa and Europe from North and South America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
This sphere contains all the water on the planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
These two features are best viewed on topographical maps.
What are mountains and deserts?
While no one is to blame, this process can turn hills into mountains.
What is faulting?
This continent was once named after its largest country, but is now named after a large body of water.
What is Oceania?
This ocean can be found on the east coast of Africa and is named after a country with over one billion people.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This sphere is divided into five distinct layers reaching over 62,000 miles long.
What is the atmosphere?
This map is best shown as a 3D model rather than in two dimensions.
What is a topographical map?
The Appalachian Mountains used to be the tallest mountain range in the world 250 million years ago, until this process slowly made them smaller and smaller.
What is erosion?
This is the only continent without an official capital.
What is Antarctica?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This sphere is made of four distinct layers, one of which is liquid.
What is the geosphere?
The best way to see state and national parks is on this type of map.
What is a physical map?
Volcanic activity is responsible for forming these two major landforms, depending on the type of volcanic eruption.
What are plateaus and mountains?
This continent contains the only countries whose predominant economies are agriculture.
What is Africa?
This ocean fully encompasses one continent.
What is the Southern Ocean?
You are part of this sphere.
What is the biosphere?