Map Tools
Landforms
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Land Affect Life
Changes to Land
100
the small drawing on the map that helps you find directions, usually showing four main directions.
What is Compass Rose
100
the highest type of landform on Earth
What are Mountains?
100
a hole in the ground or in the side of a hill or mountain
What is a cave?
100
the reason people who live near oceans, rivers, and wetlands might build their homes on stilts high above the ground
What is protect from flood?
100
the amount of Earth that is land
What is 1 out of 4 parts?
200
the small box that explains what symbols on the map stand for
What is Map Key or Legend?
200
the low land between hills and mountains
What is a valley?
200
a flat piece of land
What is a plain?
200
a job people might have if they live where the soil is good and there is plenty of rain
What is a farmer?
200
landforms
What are natural features of the Earth?
300
the part of a map that tells you the subject of the map
What is the title?
300
the landform that is a mountain with a flat top
What is Mesa?
300
area of land at the point where a river reaches an ocean
What is a delta?
300
job people who live along the coast near the ocean might have
What is a fisherman?
300
the weather pattern of a place that happens over time
What is climate?
400
the pattern of lines that cross each other forming boxes named by a letter and a number
What is Map Grid?
400
the land that is surrounded by water
What is an island?
400
a large body of salt water
What is an ocean?
400
a reason scientists might choose to live near wetlands
What is to study plants and animals that live there?
400
a method of getting from place to place
What is transportation?
500
the tool on a map that helps you compare distances on a map with real distances in the world
What is map scale?
500
a large body of moving water that moves across the land
What is a river?
500
a landform that rises slightly above the land around it but is smaller than a mountain
What is a hill?
500
a reason people's houses may look different in different areas
What is what the land has to offer or to fit their needs and fit with the area?
500
how landforms are formed
What is heat, pressure, and movement in and on the Earth?
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