Map Parts
The cardinal directions found on the compass are _____, ______, _____, and _____.
What is North, East, South, and West?
A map that shows borders of countries, states, and cities is called a ______________ map.
What is a political map?
Latitude lines run from ______ to _____.
What is East to West?
This theme studies how humans interact with their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
A region with official boundaries, such as states or countries, is called a ______ region.
What is a formal region?
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
The list or box that explains the symbols and colors on a map is called a ______________.
What is a legend or key?
A map that shows landforms like mountains, rivers, lakes, and deserts is called a ______________ map.
Longitude lines run from ______ to _____.
What is North to South?
This theme answers "Where is it?"
What is location?
A region defined by a central point and surrounding area (such as the area a pizza place will deliver to) is called a __________ region.
What is a functional region?
What is the Nile River? (located in Egypt)
The intermediate directions are __________, __________, __________, and ___________.
What is Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest?
The type of map you would use to learn each state's capital city or location of the states is called a ______________.
What is a political map?
The Prime Meridian and Equator divide the Earth into these four sections.
What are Hemispheres?
This theme looks at how people, goods, and ideas get from one place to another.
What is movement?
A region that is based on feelings, opinions, or perceptions (like the "bad side of town") and not based on facts is called a _________ region.
The country of Iceland has more ice than Greenland.
What is false? (Greenland has more ice; Iceland is greener)
The part of the map that shows the distance on the map compared to distance on Earth is called the _________.
What is the scale?
A map showing you the longest rivers in the world would be a ______________.
What is a physical map?
The 0o line of latitude is called the __________.
What is the Equator?
This theme describes the physical and human features of a location.
The area that a radio station serves is an example of a _________ region.
This is the deepest point in the Earth's oceans.
What is the Mariana Trench?
When the Earth, which is round, is shown on a flat map, shapes, sizes, or distances can look stretched or changed. This effect is called _________.
What is distortion?
The type of map that would show you elevation changes is called a ________________.
What is a physical (or topographic) map?
The 0o line of longitude is called the __________.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This theme groups areas together based on common features.
What is region?
The states that are considered to be in "The South" in the United States is an example of a __________ region.
What is a perceptual region?
This country is the only one that is also a continent.
What is Australia?