Maps & Geography
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This line divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The largest continent in the world is ___.
What is Asia?
Which ocean is west of California
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the main lesson or message of a story.
What is theme?
In the sentence “Joe runs fast,” “Joe” is this part of speech.
What is a noun?
The symbol that shows direction on a map is called this.
What is a compass rose?
If you are facing east, what direction is to your left?
What is north?
Which type of map is the most accurate representation of Earth?
What is a globe?
In Save Me a Seat, Joe struggles with this learning difference.
What is an auditory processing disorder?
This part of speech describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Which two continents are completely in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Australia and Antarctica?
This tells you what the symbols and colors on a map mean.
What is a map key?
Which continent is in all four hemispheres?
What is Africa?
This word means the time and place a story happens.
What is setting?
This part of speech replaces a noun, like “he,” “she,” or “they.”
What is a pronoun?
The Prime Meridian separates these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
On a map, this shows the relationship between distance on the map and distance in the real world.
What is the map scale?
This is the name for a person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
These three words can be used to expand simple sentences into longer ones.
What is “because,” “but,” and “so”?
An adverb modifies/describes what part(s) of speech?
List all 7 continents and the 5 major oceans, and be able to correctly spell each one.
Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
Oceans: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean
This German cartographer created the world map we studied earlier this week in class.
Who was Henricus Martellus Germanus?
In what year was the map we studied earlier this week made?
What is 1491.
Ravi brings his lunch from home in this round, metal Indian container. What is it called?
What is a tiffin box?
Identify ALL parts of speech in this sentence:
“They happily carried the heavy box.”
“They” = pronoun,
“happily” = adverb,
“carried” = verb,
“heavy” = adjective,
"box" = noun