Map Features
A tool on a map showing directions.
What is the compass rose.
What type of map shows the boundaries between cites, states and countries?
What is a political map.
What is the imaginary line of longitude with 0 degrees?
What is the Prime Meridian.
What ocean is the deepest and the biggest?
What is the Pacific Ocean.
What continent includes the counties of Greenland, Mexico, Canada and the USA?
What is North America.
What are the 4 main directions starting at top and going in clockwise order.
What is north, south, east and west.
What type of map shows geographic features such as mountains, rivers and valleys?
What is a physical map?
The Equator splits the globe into which two hemispheres?
What ocean lies between North America and Europe?
What is the Atlantic Ocean.
This continent has the largest land mass and population.
What is Asia.
What is another name for the 4 main directions of north, south, east and west?
What is cardinal directions.
What type of map shows how many people live in an area?
What is a population map.
What are imaginary north-south lines that run vertically (up and down) around the globe?
What are lines of longitude.
What ocean lies south of Asia?
What is the Indian Ocean.
This continent although the hottest, has the most countries.
What is Africa.
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What is intercardinal or intermediate directions.
What type of map shows wind currents and temperatures for a given area?
What is a weather or climate map?
What are the imaginary east-west lines that run horizontally (across) around the globe?
What are lines of latitude.
What ocean is completely surrounds the continent of Antarctica?
What is the Southern Ocean.
This is the smallest continent and has 2 names. You must say both names.
What is Australia / Oceania.
What geographical feature do the cardinal directions north and south always point to?
What is the north and south poles.
Contour lines are used to show what on a topographical map?
What is elevation or shape of the land.
The Prime Meridian splits the globe into which 2 hemispheres?
What is the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
In what ocean surrounds the continent that is covered in ice and snow all year?
What is the Arctic Ocean.
Name the 2 continents located entirely in the southern hemisphere.
What is Australia and Antarctica.