Lovely Landforms
Holy Hemispheres, Batman!
Motley Map Skills
Cool Continents (and Oceans)
Radiant Regions
100
This is a peninsula
What is a piece of land almost surrounded by water (on three sides)?
100
This zero degree line of latitude runs east/west around earth
What is the equator?
100
This type of map shows man-made boundaries
What is a political map?
100
This is the most frozen (and southern!) of the continents
What is Antarctica?
100
This type of land is commonly found in Arizona, in the Southwest region of the U.S.
What is desert?
200
This is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water
What is a strait?
200
This zero degree line of longitude runs north/south through this city (two answers)
What is the prime meridian and Greenwich, England?
200
This map tool is labeled with the cardinal directions (North, east, south, west)
What is the compass rose?
200
This is the largest ocean in the world
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
This landform is represented by the state of Florida (in the southeast region)
What is a peninsula?
300
This is an isolated area of water and fertile land in the middle of the desert
What is an oasis?
300
This continent is found entirely in the northeastern hemisphere
What is Asia?
300
This bar measures distance in miles and kilometers; it changes depending on which map you look at
What is scale?
300
These continents border Africa to the north and east
What are Europe and Asia?
300
These are the non-contiguous states
What are Hawaii and Alaska?
400
This is dry flat land with mostly grasses and small trees
What is a savana?
400
This hemisphere contains all of Antarctica
What is the southern hemisphere?
400
These directions are found between the cardinal directions
What are intermediate directions?
400
This ocean lies south of Asia and east of Africa
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
This type of land is found in this state that we learned in the Midwest region of the U.S. (two answers)
What are plains and Iowa?
500
This is a cluster of islands
What is an archipelago?
500
This hemisphere contains Australia
What is the southeastern hemisphere?
500
This box has information used to "unlock" a map--symbols, colors, etc.
What is a map key/legend?
500
These continents are closest to the Caribbean islands
What are North and South America?
500
This is the capital of New York
What is Albany?
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