Vocabulary
This part of a map tells you which direction to go.
What is a compass rose?
How much is the Earth's surface covered by water ( percentage wise)?
70 or 71 percent?
What is the lowest point on land?
Dead Sea
What map is used in polar regions
Polar maps
This is a good acronym to remember the cardinal directions.
What is Never Eat Soggy Waffles?
This part of a map helps you measure distances.
What is a map scale?
This kind of imaginary line goes from North to South and is parallel to the Prime Meridian.
What is longitude?
What is the deepest level of the ocean?
Mariana Trench
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
Where does the Prime Meridian run through
Greenwhich, England or England
This part of a map is used to explain what symbols means.
What is a map key/legend?
This imaginary line is south of the Equator at 23.5 degrees
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
Name the five oceans
Atlantic
pacific
Indian
Arctic
Southern
This map shows themes based on languages or religion or race.
Thematic map
What latitude is virginia apart of?
Mid-Latitude
What term means " a point or place in relation to another point or place.
What is a relative location?
The Earth's surface is made up of WHAT THREE structures?
What is the crust, core, and mantel?
What is the term for Rain, rivers, streams, oceans wear away soil and rock?
Water erosion
This map is used to show boundaries or cities and capitals.
What is a political map
What name is given to the study of the connections between people and their physical environment?
Human-environment interaction
What is a Mercator Map?
This place is the highest point on Earth.
What is Mt. Everest?
Seas, Gulfs, Bays are what ?
bodies of water or salt water
This map shows physical features and landforms.
What is a physical map?
What is a mental map
Map based on a persons perception of an area or place in the world.