Map Features
Features of the Northeast
Features of the USA: Bodies of Water
Features of the USA: Landforms
Hemispheres, Latitude, and Longitude
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This map feature tells us what information is in the map, or what the topic of the map is.
What is the map title?
100
This feature attracts travelers looking to enjoy beautiful beaches on the ocean.
What is the Northeast coastline?
100
This is the natural feature on the East Coast is made of saltwater and allows for shipping between continents.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
100
This area of high elevation is in the Northeast. Many travelers visit this area to hike.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
100
This is the line that divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
200
This map feature shows us the cardinal directions (N, E, S, W) on the map.
What is the rose compass?
200
This feature has a high elevation and attracts travelers that want to enjoy nature through hiking and skiing.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
200
This body of water borders the West Coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
200
This natural feature is in the middle of the United States and is great for farming.
What are the Great Plains?
200
This is the line that divides the Earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
This map feature helps us compare distance on a map to distance in real life.
What is a map scale?
300
This feature is on the border of the United States and Canada. It produces energy for the state of New York.
What is the Niagara Falls?
300
These bodies of water contain freshwater and are in the middle of the United States.
What is the Great Lakes?
300
This feature has high elevation and is in the Western part of the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
300
These are imaginary vertical lines that run North to South across the Earth and show us distance in degrees from East to West.
What is lines of longitude?
400
This map feature gives us information about symbols or colors used on a map and what they mean.
What is a map key?
400
This is the system that the physical features of the Northeast support when tourists pay money to travel to and see all our beautiful physical features.
What is the economy (helping our region make money)?
400
This natural feature of the USA has land on three sides of it. It is located in the South.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
400
This physical feature extends from Eastern Canada all the way down to the state of Alabama.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
These are imaginary horizontal lines that run east to west but measure distance in degrees of north and south.
What are lines of latitude?
500
This map feature helps us see a part of a map that is either too small or too far away to be seen on the main map.
What is an inset map?
500
These are the ways the physical features in the Northeast contribute to our culture in the Northeast.
What is contributing the economy (making our region money), giving us activities to do (hiking, skiing, going to the beach), and giving us resources (energy from Niagara Falls, wood from forests)
500
This natural feature in the USA allows shipping and transportation through the middle of the country, from North to South.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
What would be a description of the climate in Florida?
What is "mostly hot and sunny"?
500
The precise location of a place on a map measured in degrees of longitude and latitude.
What is a coordinate?
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