Map Skills
This is a map that is a sphere.
What is a globe?
These are the four cardinal directions.
North, South, East, and West?
This color represents water on a map.
What is blue?
There are this many continents.
What is seven?
The arrow on a compass always points this direction.
What is north?
Triangles represent this land form.
What are mountains?
These are the five oceans.
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern?
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
This tells you what all of the symbols on a map represent or mean.
What is a map key?
What is North America?
This is the direction between south and west.
What is southwest?
This is the thing a mapmaker uses to show distance on a map.
What is a scale?
This continent is also a country.
What is Australia?
This is another name for a compass rose.
What is a windrose?
This is the name of a person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?