Places On A Map
Drawing a Map
Vocabulary
Location, Location, Location
Trivia
100
What are continents? The seven largest bodies of land on Earth.
What are continents?
100
Latitude is measured north and south of this imaginary line.
What is the equator?
100
Imaginary lines that run parallel to the Equator.
What are lines of latitude?
100
The Great Lakes are located on this continent.
What is North America?
100
This is the capital of the USA.
What is Washington, D.C.?
200
Continents are made up of these.
What are countries?
200
On a map, this star or a star in a circle next to the name of a city usually symbolizes this.
What is the capital?
200
What is the part of a map that shows your directions (N, S, E, W)? A compass rose. It is not a flower.
What is the part of a map that shows your directions (N, S, E, W)?
200
Port-au-Prince is the capital of this country in the Caribbean Sea.
What is Haiti?
200
These two letters represent the state of Illinois in an address.
What is IL?
300
The United States is divided into these pieces of land.
What are states?
300
Lines of longitude are measured east and west of this imaginary line.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
An example of an area of land that is smaller than a continent and is completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
300
This city is the capital of Italy.
What is Rome?
300
These 2 continents share land.
What are Europe and Asia?
400
The main city in a state or country referenced by a star on the map.
What is a capital?
400
This imaginary line is the location where the date becomes one day earlier to the east of the line.
What is the International Date Line?
400
This part of the map shows you what the symbols mean.
What is a map key or a legend?
400
This city is the capital of Switzerland.
What is Bern?
400
This country is home to Kangaroo Island.
What is Australia?
500
Mexico is located on this continent.
What is North America?
500
The 7 continents in order of largest area to smallest area.
What is Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia?
500
Three items that most maps include.
What is a key, a legend, a scale, a compass rose....?
500
The Arctic Circle is closer to this pole.
What is the North Pole?
500
These two states do not touch any other state.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
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