Political Map
A rough drawing of a mental map.
What is a Map Sketch?
A large flat area of land.
What are the Plains?
An area of land controlled by the federal government.
What is the District of Columbia (D.C.)?
A map that shows human-made features and boundaries such as cities, highways, and countries.
What is a Political Map?
An island chain that divides the Caribbean Sea from the rest of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the West Indies?
An area of land or water with certain characteristics that make it different from other area.
What is a Region?
The building in Washington, D.C., occupied by the Congress of the U.S.
What is the Capitol?
A city in a country or state where the government is based.
What is a Capital?
A region of seven countries between Mexico and South America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama).
What is Central America?
A large area of an ocean that is partly surrounded by land.
What is a Gulf?
A public walkway in Washington, D.C.
Something built to honor a person or an event, such as a monument or a statue.
What is a Memorial?
An island group of the West Indies including: Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto Rico (U.S.)
What are the Greater Antilles?
A U-shaped region of ancient rock that curves around the Hudson Bay, southern part of shield is thick with forests and northern part is tundra.
What is the Canadian Shield?
The hill in Washington, D.C., on which stands the Capitol building.
What is Capitol Hill?
A place selected and pointed out as important to a group of people.
What is a Cultural Landmark?
An island group of the West Indies including eight countries and eight dependencies.
What are the Lesser Antilles?
A narrow strip of land having water on each side and connecting two larger bodies of land.
What is an Isthmus?
An oval-shaped, park-like area in Washington, D.C.
What is the Ellipse?
Land and waters controlled by a state, nation, or government.
What is a Dependency?