Maps
Living in California
North America
Moving from place to place
100

What the map is all about. It is usually at the top of the map. 

What is the map title?

100

The land and people of a place. There are 50 in our country. 

What is a state?

100

An area of land with its own people and laws. Ours is the United States of America. 

What is a country?

100
A group of people who are the first to discover new land. 

Who were the pioneers?

200

This is where you find the map symbols. 

What is the map legend?


200

A place with a lot of businesses, apartments and homes that is always busy and full of people. 

What is a city or an urban area?

200
A kind of land with a special shape. 

What is a landform?

200

Someone who moves from one country to another. 

Who is an immigrant?

300

This is a set of lines that divide a map into columns and rows of squares. 

What is a map grid?


300

A smaller community near a big city. It has lots of houses and yards and driveways. 

What is a suburb?


300

Give an example of a landform found in the United States. 

What are mountains, valley, plains, rivers, lakes?


400

The imaginary line that divides the Earth in half. 

What is the equator?

400
This area has lots of land and not a lot of people. 

What is a rural area?

400

This country is north of the United States.

What is Canada?