Map Vocabulary
This tells what the map is mostly about.
What is map title?
This type of map shows the roads, highways, or thruways of a city, state, or other area.
What is a road map?
Name a lake that borders NYS.
What is Lake Ontario, Lake Champlain, or Lake Erie?
These lines run horizontally. (Left to right)
What are the lines of latitude?
This is the continent we live in.
What is North America?
This helps the reader interpret the symbols that appear on maps.
What is a map key?
This map shows the distance or height of land above sea level. It also allows you to compare and contrast different landforms.
What is an elevation map?
True or False: The capital of New York is Syracuse.
What is False?
Albany is the capital.
This line is at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
True or False: The Pacific Ocean borders California.
What is True?
This shows distance on a map.
What is a scale?
This type of map sometimes includes dates that tell when events took place, and uses special symbols to show where battles or other types of events took place.
What is a historical map?
Name a mountain range in NY.
What is The Catskills or The Adirondack Mountains?
These lines run north and south.
What are lines of longitude?
The Southern Ocean is near this continent.
What is Antarctica?
This looks like an arrow and shows the directions: north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
This map shows mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is a physical map?
What is the region of lakes called in NYS near Rochester and Syracuse?
What is the Finger Lakes Region?
These lines run vertically on a map.
What are lines of longitude?
This ocean is near the Northern part of a world map.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
These lines run east and west and north and south of the equator.
What is longitude and latitude?
This map shows borders of areas like countries, states, and cities.
What is a political map?
This is the country that borders NYS.
What is Canada?
This line is located at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Name the 7 continents and 5 oceans!
What are Australia, Asia, Antarctica, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe.
What are the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Southern Ocean.