Cruise Ship Facts
This part of the ship is where the captain controls the ship.
What is the bridge?
This shows where north, south, east, and west are on a map.
What is a compass rose?
This cold region is home to penguins and icy waters.
What is Antarctica?
This is a large body of salt water that covers most of the Earth.
What is an ocean?
This direction is the opposite of west.
What is east?
Cruise ships usually stop at these places to let passengers explore.
What are ports?
This helps explain what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a legend (or key)?
Cruises that go here might stop in Alaska, Canada, or the Pacific Northwest.
What is the North American region?
This is a body of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
When using a map, the top usually points to this direction.
What is north?
This big room is where passengers often eat meals.
What is the dining hall (or dining room)?
This is what we use to measure the real distance between two places on a map.
What is a map scale?
The Amazon Rainforest is in this region.
What is South America?
This landform is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
This tool helps sailors and travelers find direction using Earth’s magnetic field.
What is a compass?
These ships are often compared to this floating place.
What is a floating city?
Lines that go east to west across a map.
What are lines of latitude?
Cruises in this region might visit Italy, Greece, and Spain.
What is the Mediterranean region?
A cruise ship sails through this kind of waterway to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
If you're heading from Florida to the Bahamas, you’re going this direction.
What is southeast?
The person in charge of running the whole ship.
Who is the captain?
This line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
The region where you would find the Sahara Desert.
What is Africa?
This term means the height of land above sea level.
What is elevation?
If your cruise ship turns left, it's going in this direction.
What is port?