Map Skills
On the world map
Vocabulary
Where you live
Trivia
100
What do you call a round representation of a map?
What is a globe?
100
What kind of view are maps drawn?
A bird's eye view
100
What divides the earth into two hemispheres?
What is the equator? What is the prime meridian?
100
What is the name of the state you live in?
What is New York?
100
What is the capital of the United States?
What is Washington, D.C.?
200
What would you use to figure out direction on a map?
What is the compass rose?
200
What are the five oceans?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic and Southern
200
What does Hemisphere mean?
Half of a sphere
200
What is the capital of the state you live in?
What is Albany?
200
Which two U.S. states do not touch any other state?
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
300
What do you call the line that shows where one place starts and the other ends?
What is a boundary or a border?
300
What is the coldest continent
What is Antarctica ?
300
This is used to tell direction on a map.
What is a the compass rose?
300
What borough do we live in?
What is Queens?
300
Which is the biggest of the 7 continents?
What is Asia?
400
What are three different landforms that can we can see on a map?
What are bay, lake, ocean, river, hill, island, mountain, plain ,plateau or valley?
400
What are the names of the three countries that make up North America?
What are Canada, Mexico and the United States
400
This includes symbols that represent objects or places.
What is a map key or legend?
400
How many states are there?
What is 52?
400
What do you call a piece of land that has water all around it?
What is an island?
500
How can you use a map key to help you read a map?
What is it tells you what all of the symbols on a map represent or mean?
500
What are the names of the seven continents?
What are North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and Antarctica?
500
Geography is the study of?
Earth's surface, landforms and bodies of water.
500
What continent do you live on?
North America
500
What do you call a line that separates two countries or two states?
What is a border?