What's that?
Types of maps
Parts of a map
Where's that?
Mystery Category
100

This is a person who creates maps. 

What is a cartographer? 

100

This type of map shows major and minor roads, highways, interstates, airports, and various points of interest. 

What is a Road Map? 

100

A tool on a map showing cardinal (N, S, E, W) and intermediate (NE, NW, SE, SW) directions.  

What is the compass rose? 

100

This ocean lies between North America and Europe. 

What is the Atlantic Ocean? 

100

This animated character always has a map in her backpack. 

Who is Dora the Explorer? 

200

Imaginary North-South lines that run vertically around the globe. 

What are Lines of Longitude? 

200

This map shows weather trends in a particular location over time.

What is a Climate Map? 

200

This is what a mapmaker uses to show distances on a map in relation to distances on the ground. 

What is a scale? 

200

This ocean lies south of Asia. 

What is the Indian Ocean? 

200

This movie featured a cartographer named Shelly Oberon, whose weakness were "cake, speed and strength".  

What is Jumanji? 

300

A set of imaginary lines that run parallel to the equator.  

What are lines of Latitude? 

300

This map shows where large groups of people live.

What is a Population Density map?

300

These are abstract or pictorial representations that stand for other things on a map (such as an airplane representing an airport)

What are symbols?

300

This ocean lies by the North Pole.

What is the Arctic Ocean? 

300

The main characters in this 2022 movie starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg used a treasure map to find a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan more than 500 years ago. 

What is Uncharted? 

400

This term described half of the Earth, usually divided into northern and southern halves by the Equator, or eastern and western halves by the Prime Meridian? 

What is a Hemisphere? 

400

This map shows boundaries of countries as well as major cities or capitals. 

What is a Political Map? 

400

The key to understanding a map is to use this feature (this section explains and defines symbols, colors, and styles used to represent data).  

What is the Legend or a Key? 

400

This imaginary line splits the earth into the western and eastern hemispheres. 

What is the Prime Meridian? 

400

The way to this location is the "second to the right and straight on until morning". 

What is Peter Pan's Neverland? 

500
Stars on a map usually indicate what?

What are capitals? 

500

This map shows accurate and detailed illustrations of man-made and natural features of the ground (including roads, elevations, contours, geographic features, etc.).  

What is a Topographic Map?

500

This is the specific term for North, South, East and West 

What are the cardinal directions? 

500

The equator is at this degree latitude. 

What is zero degrees.  

500

If Buddy the Elf had a map for his journey from the North Pole to NY, it would have taken him through the the seven levels of the candy cane forest and this "sweet ocean".  

What is the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops

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