Maps
A diagram that shows the relationship between distances on a map and real distances on Earth.
What is map scale?
Low, flat land that runs along the coast.
What is a coastal plain?
A tool someone would use to navigate on a boat or in the forest.
What is a compass?
The state we live in.
What is Pennsylvania?
An explanation of what the symbols on a map stand for.
What is a map key?
Not bordering an ocean.
What is an inland region?
An imaginary line that runs east and west around the globe; also called parallel
What are lines of latitude?
The hurricane that broke the levees in New Orleans.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
North, South, East and West
What are cardinal directions?
A high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it.
What is a plateau?
An imaginary line that runs around the globe between the North and South Poles; also called a meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
The five regions of the USA.
What is Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and West.
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are intermediate directions?
Bodies of water in the Midwest region.
What are the Great Lakes?
The grid formed by crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude on a map.
What is global grid?
The only inland region.
What is Midwest?