Reading Maps
This is the direction that goes "up" on a map.
What is North?
This is what you would label a blue squiggly line on a map.
What is a river?
This is the section of the map that tells you what the symbols on the map means.
What is the map key?
This part of the map tells you what it's about.
What is the title?
This is where you would look to figure out what a symbol means on a map.
What is the map key?
This is how many oceans there are on Earth.
What is five?
This is what tells your the directions on a map.
What is the compass?
This is a line of events as they happen in time.
What is a timeline?
This part of the map shows you what the distance on land would be.
What is the scale (bar)?
This is how many states there are in the United States.
What is 50?
This is the study of Earth and everything on it.
What is geography?
This is the kind of map that shows themes or topics.
What is a thematic map?
Mountain would probably look like this on a map.
What are rigid/triangular?
This is how many continents there are in the world.
What is seven?
This is when events are put in the order that they happened.
What is chronology?
This is the type of map that shows countries and continents.
What is a political map?
This is the symbol usually used to represent a capital city.
What is a star?
What is the Rocky Mountains or Appalachian Mountains?
This is a span of time usually characterized by a specific event.
What is a period?
This is the kind of map that shows natural characteristics.
What is a physical map?