Category 1
The study of Earth and the way people live on it and use it.
What is geography?
The number of time zones in the United States
What is 6?
The four main points of the compass.
What are cardinal directions?
A guide telling you what each symbol on a map stands for.
What is a map key/legend?
A physical map that uses colors to show the elevation of land above sea level.
What is an elevation map/topographical map?
The time zone in which we live in.
What is Eastern?
Directions halfway between two cardinal directions.
What are intermediate directions?
Describing a place in relation to another place
What is relative location?
A map that indicates cities, highways, and points of interest and shows how to get from one place to another.
What is a road map?
One of Earth's four large bodies of water
What is an ocean?
An imaginary line, or meridian, measuring east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
A figure that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
A map that shows the boundaries of states and countries.
What is a political map?
A map that shows information about the past or where past events took place.
What is a historical map?
If it is 3:00 pm in California what time is it in NYC?
What is 6?
A guide that explains the relationship between real distances on Earth and distances on a map.
What is a scale/scale bar?
A map that highlights Earth's natural features.
What is a physical map?
If it is 10 am in Miami Florida what time is it in Texas?
What is 9 am?
The line of longitude labeled 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
Something that stands for something else on a map.
What is a symbol?
You are flying from North Carolina to Colorado at 10 am Eastern time. It is a 4 hour flight. What time is it in Colorado when you land?
What is 12 pm?
There are seven of these on Earth.
What is a continent?