Mapping Skills 1
This is on a map and tells the directions
What is the Compass Rose?
This is the number of Continents on the earth
What is seven?
Large parts of land are called this?
What are continents?
This part of the map tells what the pictures or symbols mean.
What is the Map Key or Legend?
This is the continent that the United States is on.
What is North America?
These are the four cardinal directions
What is North, South, East, and West?
This is the name of the ocean near California
What is the Pacific?
This is the number of states in the United States of America.
What is fifty?
This is the only country that is also a continent.
What is Australia?
This part of the map tells what the map is
What is the title?
This continent is the furthest south and has the least number of people living on it
What is Antarctica?
The two hemispheres are the northern hemisphere and this
What is the southern hemisphere?
This part of the map tells the distance between two places
What is the scale?
If I want to know how far California is from Illinois, I look at this part of the map
What is the scale?
What is Australia?
This continents contains the country of China
What is Asia?
Madagascar is part of this continent.
What is Africa?
This continent contains the countries France and Italy.
What is Europe?
This is a sphere that represents the earth
What is a globe?
What is Mexico and Canada?
This is the imaginary line that divides the earth into two parts
What is the equator?
These are the four Intermediate Directions
What are Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast?
This is the only continent that has no countries on it
What is Antarctica?
Illinois is considered to be in this region:
Southwest, Northeast, or Midwest
What is the Midwest?
This is the largest continent
What is Asia?