Map Skills
Reading this helps you know what the map is of.
What is a title?
The shapes of the land.
What are landforms?
A large open area of flat land.
What are plains?
A community with few houses that are spread apart. Farms are usually found in this type of community.
What is a rural area?
This type of map shows land and water features.
What is a physical map?
This helps you know what direction you are traveling.
What is a compass rose?
The area around someone or something.
What is environment?
Land that rises high above the land around it.
What is a mountain?
The area surrounding someone or something.
What is an environment?
There are this many continents on Earth.
What is 7?
A measurement in miles to figure out how far one place is from another.
What is a map scale?
A place where something is.
What is location?
Where the ocean meets the land.
What is a coast?
A community that has many businesses, houses, cars, stores and people.
What is an urban area?
A map that shows borders between countries and states.
What is a political map?
Many symbols that represent objects on a map.
What is a map key?
A very large body of land.
What is a continent?
What is a forest?
This type of community is outside of a city, with many houses, parks, and schools.
What is a suburban area?
What is the United States?
A map showing landforms across a particular area.
What is a physical map?
The study of Earth.
What is geography?
Rivers, ponds, lakes, marshes, and other bodies of water.
What are waterways?
An area with common features.
What is a region?
Name four landforms on Earth.
What are mountains, valleys, plains, canyons, plateaus, islands, hills or coasts?