Types of Maps
This map shows the major landmasses on Earth.
What is a world map?
GPS stands for this
What is Global Positioning System?
This animal causes weathering.
What is an earthworm?
Where is Mrs. Courtney from?
What is Texas, USA?
This map could be used to track typhoons
What is a weather map?
This is the name for the major landmasses on Earth
What is a continent?
This symbol tells you the cardinal directions of north, east, south, and west.
What is a compass rose?
This is the effect of a tree growing in a crack in a boulder.
What is weathering?
The land is _____ when the contour lines are very close together
What is steep?
This type of map is used when somebody wants to buy a new house.
What is a floor plan?
This is how high an area is above sea level
What is elevation?
This tells you what the symbols on a map stand for.
What is the key?
This can be caused by animals, wind, water, glaciers, and gravity.
What is erosion?
This type of map shows the boundaries of a country as well as major cities or capitals.
What is a political map?
The physical features of an area of land, especially the position of rivers, mountains, etc.
What is topography?
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
The name for where a river meets the ocean.
What is the mouth?
The number of separate bodies of water that make up the 5 oceans.
What is one?
This map could have been made using a telescope.
What is a star map?
These lines connect areas with the same elevation on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
Online maps use this to determine where you are very accurately.
What is GPS?
The process that causes river deltas.
What is deposition?
Someone who makes a map is known as this.
What is a cartographer?