Landforms
Map Skills
Bodies of Water
Benefit/Barrier
Types of Maps
100
Landform that is completely surrounded by water
What is an island
100
Name the cardinal directions on a compass
What is north, south, east, and west
100
What is part of the sea or ocean that cuts into a mass of land?
What is a gulf
100
What is a benefit to living near the ocean
What is food source, shipping, water, transportation
100
What map shows borders between states or countries
What is political
200
Low areas that are mostly flat with few trees
What is plains
200
Name the intermediate directions on a compass
What is northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest
200
What is a smaller stream that runs into a river?
What is a tributary
200
What is a barrier to living in the Plains?
What is not much protection from weather, water may be difficult to come by
200
What map shows roads and highways and can be used when planning a trip
What is a road map
300
Landform surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula
300
What two hemispheres does the equator separate?
What is the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere
300
Where does a delta form?
What is at the mouth of a river
300
What is a benefit to living near a river?
What is drinking water, transportation of goods, water for farming
300
What map shows landforms such as mountains, rivers, and canyons?
What is physical
400
Landform that rises above the surrounding land and has steep sides
What is a mountain range
400
What shape is the earth?
What is a sphere
400
Body of water surrounded by land
What is a lake
400
What is a barrier to living in the mountains?
What is makes traveling difficult, wildlife is dangerous, air is thinner
400
What map shows products grown in a state or area?
What is product
500
What river runs west of the Appalachian Mountains and flows into the Mississippi River
What is the Ohio River
500
What do meridians of longitude show?
What is how far east or west a place is
500
Where the river empties into a larger body of water, such as an ocean or a lake
What is a mouth
500
What is a benefit to living near a forest?
What is great source of lumber, water source close by, wildlife for food
500
What map shows a specific theme (elevation, historical, timezone)
What is thematic map
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