Map Skills
The map component that shows direction.
What is a compass rose?
The time period when humans transitioned from hunting/gathering to farming.
What is the Neolithic Age or Agricultural Revolution?
The meaning of Mesopotamia.
What is "land between two rivers"?
The religious text considered holy by Christians.
What is the Holy Bible?
The river that was crucial for agriculture in ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
This line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The first plants cultivated by early farmers.
What are grains (wheat, barley, millet)?
The name of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The founder of Judaism.
Who is Abraham?
The title for a king of ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
This map feature shows symbols that may be found on the map.
What is a map legend or key?
The type of living structure that began around the Neolithic Age.
What is permanent shelter?
A walled city with its own king, laws, and government.
What is a city-state?
The holy book of Muslims.
What is the Quran?
A large stone structure that is half man and half lion.
What is the Great Sphinx?
Lines on a map that run horizontally are known as these.
What are lines of latitude?
These formed as more and more people settled in fertile areas.
What are villages?
The large stepped temple in the center of a Sumerian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
The Jewish day of rest observed from Friday evening through Saturday.
What is the Sabbath or Shabbat?
The location of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx.
What is Giza?
The map component that helps determine distance on a map.
What is a map scale?
The first farm animal to be domesticated.
What is the goat?
The writing system developed by the Sumerians using wedge-shaped symbols pressed into clay.
What is cuneiform?
A Muslim place of worship.
What is a mosque?
The writing system of ancient Egypt that used pictorial symbols.
What are hieroglyphs?