Map Terms
Continents
Oceans
Map Types
MISC
100
The Map Key
What is the part of the map that shows what symbols represent?
100
Australia
What is the continent that is also a country?
100
The Pacific
What is the ocean between North America and Asia?
100
Political
What is the type of map you'd need to find borders?
100
The equator
What is the imaginary line that separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
200
The Map Scale
What is the line of measurement that compares distance on the map to real, geographic distances?
200
South America
What is the continent that has the country of Brazil
200
The Atlantic
What is the ocean between North America and Europe?
200
Population
What is the type of map you'd need to find out how many people live in an area?
200
The Prime Meridian
What is the imaginary line that separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
300
North, South, East, and West
What are cardinal directions?
300
Antarctica
What is the southern most continent?
300
The Southern Ocean
What is the ocean north of Antarctica?
300
A road map shows these things
What are roads and routes?
300
One is 2-D and one is 3-D
What is one difference between a map and a globe?
400
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
400
North America
What is the continent that contains the United States?
400
The Indian Ocean
What is the Ocean south of Asia?
400
Climate Map
What is the type of map that shows average weather for an area?
400
The hemisphere were the USA is located?
What is the Northwestern Hemisphere?
500
The Map Title
What is the part of the map where you'll find the area it represents?
500
Asia and Europe
What are the two continents that are connected?
500
The Arctic Ocean
What is the northern most ocean?
500
A Resource Map
What is the type of map that shows where natural resources are found?
500
These help you find absolute locations
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
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