Vocabulary
What do you call a very large body of salt water?
Where do you find saltwater?
In oceans.
Lakes and rivers are both what kind of water?
Fresh water
What habitat is known for being hot and dry?
The desert.
What do you call a map in the shape of a sphere? (ball)
A globe
What do you call areas of land that rise up sharply compared to their surroundings?
Mountains
Name 3 watersources
Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Groundwater, Glaciers, Ponds, etc.
What do you call a 3D map in the shape of a sphere?
A globe
This habitat is home to animals like bears, deer, and many birds.
The forest.
What do you call a map that shows temperature and rain?
What do you call the place where the land meets the sea?
The coast.
Down.
What is the difference between a physical map and a political map?
A physical map shows landforms, a political map shows boundaries of countries, states, and cities.
In this habitat it rains almost every day.
The rainforest.
What does a physical map show?
Landforms, like oceans, rivers, and mountains.
A whole dug into the earth and used to get fresh water out of the ground.
What is formed when lots of snow and ice become hard?
A glacier
Name at least 2 different kinds of maps.
Physical, Political, Weather, and Globe
Water habitats can be divided into two groups. What are they?
Saltwater and Freshwater.
What do you call a map that shows boundaries of countries, states, and cities?
Political Maps
What do you call fresh water found under the Earth's surface?
Groundwater
What kind of water is found beneath the Earth's surface?
Groundwater.
Maps can tell us which road to take when we are going somewhere new.
Which habitat is also called the tundra?
The arctic.
A legend or key.