Map Skills
A symbol on a map that shows direction (North, East, South and West)
What is Compass Rose?
What is absolute location?
The data that gives long term weather patterns.
What is Climate?
There are 7 of these, including Africa.
What are continents?
The landform that is a large body of water surrounded by land on all sides.
What is a lake?
What is Title?
Type of location that says that Nipher is next to the Magic House
What is relative location
The map that shows borders between states, countries and counties.
What is Political Map?
What is Southern Ocean?
The landform that has a large, flat area higher than the surrounding land.
What is a Plateau?
A piece of text on a map that identifies a feature
What is a label?
0 degrees latitude
What is Equator?
The map that shows landforms.
What is Physical Map?
The ocean that is the farthest north
What is Arctic Ocean?
The landform that is a low place between mountains.
What is a valley?
An inset on a map that explains the map symbols
What is the map key?
The lines that run north to south and measure degrees East and West
Longitude
The map that shows how many people live in an area.
What is Population Density Map?
The continent that is southeast of Asia.
What is Australia?
The landform that is a piece of land that is surrounded by water.
What is a island?
The measurement conversion that tells how the distance on the map converts the distance on the ground.
What is scale?
0 degrees longitude
What is Prime Meridian?
The type of map that would tell a gardener what types of plants would grow well in their garden.
What is a Vegetation Zone map?
The continent is at 90 degrees South latitude.
What is Antartica?
The landform that is part of the ocean that is partly surrounded by land.
What is a gulf?