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A symbol on a map that shows the cardinal directions.
What is compass rose.
Imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.
What is Lines of Longitude
A list of symbols that appear on the map.
What is Key (Legend)
Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
What is Delta
A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
What is Isthmus
North (N), east (E), south (S), west (W), at 90° angles on the compass rose.
What is Cardinal Directions
a unit of latitude or longitude used to define points on the earth's surface or on the celestial sphere.
What is Degrees (as in location)
A group of islands.
What is Archipelago
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
What is Fjord
a large body of water surrounded by land.
What is Lake
Are formed by bisecting the above, giving: northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW) and northwest (NW).
What is the four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions
Geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.
What is Prime Meridian
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
What is Bay
A portion of the ocean that penetrates land.
What is Gulf
A loch is a lake or an inlet of the sea.
What is Lock or Loch
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is Geography
refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground- map scale.
What is Scale (on a map)
an artificial waterway designed for navigation so that people could cross the water with boats or ships.
What is Canal
A body of water sheltered by natural or artificial barriers. They can provide safe anchorage and permit the transfer of cargo and passengers between ships and the shore.
What is Harbor
The portion of a land that is nearby water that is connected to a larger body by an isthmus.
What is Peninsula
an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.
What is Equator
the misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the earth's curved surface.
What is Distortion (on a map)
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is Cape (in geography)
A body of land surrounded by water.
What is Island
The ocean by the party surrounding land and there are about 50 seas that include water bodies.
What is Sea