Political and Physical Maps
Ms. Albert is doing a research project on the Catskill mountains. What type of map could she use to identify where these mountains are?
Physical Map
How many hemispheres can the Earth be divided into?
Four hemispheres.
What are the natural shapes and features of an area of land called? Provide one example.
Landforms.
What are the imaginary lines on a map or globe that run East to West called and measure how far North or South a place is.
Latitude
What do the letters N, S, E and W stand for on a Compass Rose?
North, South, East and West.
Ms. McQuade is doing a research project on New York and wants to know the capital of New York and what states border New York. What type of map should she use?
Political Map
What are the four regions of the western hemisphere?
North America, South America, Mesoamerica, The Caribbean.
What is the landform shown by image D in your packet called?
A peninsula.
What are the imaginary lines on a map or globe that run North to South and measure how far East or West a place is?
A picture on a map that shows the four cardinal directions (N, S, E, W) and four intermediate directions (northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest) is called the.....
Compass Rose
What is the map that uses national and state boundaries, cities and capitals called?
A political map.
What are the three countries that make up North America?
Canada, The United States of America and Mexico.
What type of landform is the state of Hawaii?
a- Mountain Range
b-Peninsula
c-Islands
d-Plain
Islands.
What is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres called? Use Map A to help you.
The Equator.
What does a map scale show?
a- The relationship between actual distance and distance shown on a map.
b- The cardinal directions.
c- What the symbols, colors and lines on a map mean.
a- The relationship between actual distance and distance shown on a map.
What is a map that shows the natural features of Earth like rivers, mountains, plains, etc. called?
A physical map.
Why is the region Mesoamerica called Mesoamerica?
What is the landform shown by image E in your packet called?
Valley
What is the line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemisphere called? Use Map B to help you.
The Prime Meridian.
What is the feature on the map that shows what the symbols and colors mean called?
A legend.
Sometimes on political maps some states will be blue and others will be red what is this showing?
Political Divisions (the states where people voted majority Republican are red and the states where people voted majority democratic are blue).
A large portion of North America has a temperate climate, what does that mean? (Think about what it is favorable to and what types of plants are grown in that region).
A temperate climate is not too hot and not too cold it is favorable to agriculture and settlement.
What is a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles called?
Glacier
Which coordinate comes first latitude or longitude?
Latitude.
What is South America in comparison to North America? Use Map C and the Compass Rose to help you. (Think directions!)
South America is South of North America.