Types Of Maps
Parts of a Map
Continents and Oceans
Compass rose
General Map Skills
100
This map shows the physical features of an area, such as mountains, rivers, and lakes.
What is a Physical Map
100
This tells what the map represents or shows
What is a map title
100
This is a large mass of land. There are seven of these on earth
What is a continent
100
These are the cardinal directions
What are north south east and west
100
These lines go round and round
What is latitude
200
This type of map shows states, states, capitals, and major cities.
What is a Political map
200
a tool to help you measure accurate distances.
What is a scale
200
These are the seven continents
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica
200
These are intermediate directions
What is North east, Southeast, Northwest, southwest
200
These lines go Up and Down
What is longitude
300
This type of map shows what resources and goods are found in a certain place
What is a resource map?
300
This tells you what symbols represent
What is a Map Key or Legend
300
These are the five oceans
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern
300
If you go east from Virginia what body of water would you get to?
What is the Atlantic Ocean
300
This imaginary line separates the northern and southern hemispheres
What is The equator
400
This type of map gives information about weather and precipitation.
What is a climate Map
400
This shows the Cardinal and intermediate directions
What is the Compass Rose
400
These oceans border the United States
What are the Pacific and Atlantic
400
This country is North of the United States
What is Canada
400
This imaginary Line separate the eastern and western hemisphere
What is the prime meridian
500
This type of map shows the shape and elevation of land. It sometimes looks like a fingerprint.
What is a contour map
500
These lines help to find positions on a map
What are longitude and latitude lines
500
These two continents share one large land mass, they are separated by this mountain range
What is Asia and Europe. They are separated by the Ural Mountains
500
This country is south of the United States
What is Mexico
500
This is what GPS stands for, it is a device that uses ___to provide location
What is Global Positioning System, satellites
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