Map Skills
Landforms
More map skills
Immigration
Miscellaneous
100
what type of map would you use to find Albuquerque?
A political map
100
a large flat grassy area
plain
100
0 degrees latitude
Equator
100
what are some reasons for immigrants coming to America?
escape poverty, war, unemployment, famine to be with family
100
information can be shown with bars on this type of graph
bar graph
200
How would you know what the symbols on a map mean?
Look at the key
200
a high flat area
plateau
200
0 degrees longitude
prime meridian
200
why were the Native Americans of the Great Plains a nomadic group?
they traveled after herds of buffalo
200
The United States in in what hemisphere?
Western Hemisphere
300
Physical features, such as mountains, rivers, valleys and lakes are shown on this type of map
a physical map
300
Bigger than a hill that you can ski down
mountain
300
what ocean will you find on the east coast?
atlantic
300
How did most African Americans come to America prior to 1865?
by force on a slave ship
300
What continent is located at the bottom of the earth?
antartica
400
how do you fit hundreds of miles on a 24 inch map?
Use a scale
400
The earth is made up of mostly _____________.
Water
400
what ocean will you find on the west coast?
pacific
400
what is located in New York harbor, this became a processing center to thousands of immigrants.
Ellis Island
400
what is one of the world's longest rivers located in the United States?
mississippi river
500
what are the four cardinal directions?
North, South, East and West
500
the largest bodies of water
ocean
500
which country has the most land in North America?
the united states
500
treating some people worse than others because of prejudice
discrimination
500
What are the three main countries in North America?
Canada, United States and Mexico
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