Geography Genius
Mountains, valleys, and canyons are all examples of these natural land shapes.
landforms
This continent at the South Pole has no permanent residents.
Antarctica
This type of map shows natural features like mountains, rivers, and deserts.
physical map
This morpheme means land or "Earth"
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The capital city of a country is often marked with this symbol on a political map.
a star
This is the height of land above sea level.
The ocean between North America and Europe.
Atlantic
BONUS!! Win 200 points by singing the 5 oceans.
woohoo!! (Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic, Indian)
This person studies and creates maps.
cartographer
These lines on a political map show where one country or state ends and another begins.
border or boundary
Oceans, rivers, and lakes are all examples of these.
bodies of water
The study of places on Earth, including the land, water, people, and how they all connect.
geography
This type of map uses lines to show the height and shape of the land.
topographic map
This phrase means the shortest, most direct distance between two points.
As the crow flies.
This type of map shows countries, states, cities, and borders.
political map
This is the average level of the ocean's surface, used as a starting point for measuring elevation.
sea level
If you were a bird in southern Africa and flew West, what continent would you bump into?
South America
This term describes a view from directly above, like looking straight down at Earth.
bird's eye vies
This shows the relationship between distance on a map and real distance on Earth.
map scale
Name the continents from largest to smallest.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
When contour lines are far apart on a map, what does that mean?
It means that the land is flat or gently sloping (not steep); the elevation changes gradually.
When contour lines are close together on a map, what does that mean?
It means the elevation is changing rapidly over a short distance (its steep).
Without this map feature, you wouldn't know if a triangle represents a mountain or a temple.
a legend
When land goes up or down very quickly, not gradually.
steep
If you wanted to find the distance between the capital city of Australia and the capital city of Fiji AND calculate the distance between them, what type of Atlas feature would you use, what type of map would you look for, and what type of map tool would you need?
The index, a physical map of Oceania, and it's map scale.