Continents & Oceans
Landforms
Latitude & Longitude
Scale & Legend
Wild Card
100
Name all the continents
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica
100
What is the difference between a mountain & a plateau?
A mountain has a pointed peak & a plateau has a flat top
100
What is the name of the line that divides the Earth into the northern & southern hemisphere?
The Equator
100
What is the name of the little pictures in a legend?
Symbols
100
What is the name of the symbol that tells you the directions?
A compass
200
What's the largest & smallest continents?
The largest continent is Asia & the smallest is Australia
200
What is a gulf?
A large body of salt water with land on 3 sides.
200
What is the name of the line dividing the Earth into the Eastern & Western hemispheres?
The Prime Meridian
200
What does a legend tell you?
The location of natural & man-made features of a place.
200
What is one way of remembering the order of the directions in the compass?
Never Eat Soggy Waffles/Sour Watermelon/Shredded Wheat
300
Which ocean is on North America's east coast & which is on the west coast?
The Atlantic is on the east coast & the Pacific is on the west coast.
300
What is a peninsula? Bonus points if you can name an example of a peninsula in the United States.
An area of land that has water on 3 sides. An example in the US is Florida.
300
Latitude measures north & south or east & west?
North & South
300
Scale: 1 inch = 25 miles Garveyville & Gottschlichtown are 5 inches apart on the map, so how far away are they in real life?
125 Miles
300
Latitude measures what?
How far north or south a place is from the Equator.
400
Which continent has the smallest population and why?
Antarctica has the smallest population because it's too cold to live there.
400
What is an archipelago?
A series of small islands in a group.
400
Give an example of latitude & longitude in the correct order - make up any numbers.
______ degrees North/South, ______ degrees East/West Example: 40N, 90W
400
Scale: 1 inch = 30 miles Harristown & Wrightville are 3.5 inches apart, so how far are they in real life?
105 miles.
400
Name the two major mountain ranges in the United States. Don't worry about spelling.
The Appalachian Mountains & the Rocky Mountains
500
Name the other 3 oceans besides the Atlantic & Pacific.
Indian, Southern, Arctic
500
What is an isthmus?
A strip of land/land bridge connecting two larger land masses.
500
Which hemisphere is Australia in? North-Western, North-Eastern, South-Western, South-Eastern?
South-Eastern.
500
You have an 8 inch x 11 inch piece of paper to make a map for a room that is 40 ft x 30 ft. Create a scale that would make the map fit on the paper.
1 inch = 4 ft or 5 ft 40 ft = 10 inches or 40 ft = 8 inches 28 ft = 7 inches or 28 ft = 5.5 inches
500
What is the name of the imaginary pole that goes through the center of the Earth?
The Earth's axis.
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