Landforms
What is a cave?
A deep hollowed out area often found in the side of a hill or cliff
What is a political map? What can you learn from it?
Shows countries and cities. Capital cities are often marked with a star
Where is the ring of fire located?
Around the Pacific ocean.
What are the four main directions on a compass rose?
North, South, East, West
What is a plateu
A raised flat area of land that is higher than surrounding land
What is a glacier?
A large body of year round ice and snow that moves slowly across the land
What is a physical map and what can you learn from it?
An area's natural physical features such as hills, valleys, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and bays
What is the ring of fire?
Plate boundaries where there are many earthquakes and volcanoes.
What does a legend or key help you do?
Read the maps symbols
What is a desert?
A dry area of land having very little rainfall or plant life.
What is a waterfall?
A steep fall or flow of water from a higher elevation
What is a satellite map and what can you learn from it?
Shows the image of places taken from a satellite. Map features such as roads are highlighted on the satellite image.
What is a fault?
A crack in the earth's crust.
Which way does a compass rose face on a map?
North is always pointed up
What is a volcano?
A mountain or hill with a crater through which lava, rock, or gas erupts
What is a peninsula?
A piece of land that juts out from the main land and is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a street map and what can we learn from it?
Where do fault's usually occur?
Large faults often occur at plate boundaries
What is a map scale? Why does a map need one?
It shows the distance the map covers. The scale on a map of a large area would be in miles or kilometers.
If not, the map would be life size and way too big!
What are hills and mountains? How are they different?
Mountain- a large steep area of land which usually rises more than 1,000 feet
Hill- a raised area of land; not as high as a mountain
What are lakes and islands? What is the difference?
Lake- A body of water completely surrounded by land
Island- a small area of land completely surrounded by water
What is a topographic map and what can we learn from it? If contour lines are closer together it means there is.....
Shows the land surface using contour lines. Contour lines that are closer together show steeper land. Contour lines that are far apart show flatter land.
Name 3 things that can happen due to tectonic plates moving.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, trenches, and larger cracks
List 3 tools that you may find on a map.
Key/ legend, title, compass rose, map scale
What are valleys and canyons? How are they different?
Canyon- a deep narrow valley, usually with steep sides and a river flowing through it
Valley- A long low area of land between hills or mountain ranges