Maps
This is used for orientation of a map.
What is a compass rose (or north arrow)?
A smaller body of salt water.
a. lake b. ocean
c. sea d. pond
What is a sea?
The continent that has the largest number of unreached people groups.
What is Asia?
What is the equator?
What is the southern hemisphere?
The decoder for the symbology in the data frame of a map.
What is a map legend (or key)?
A row of connected mountains.
a. mountain b. valley
c. delta d. mountain range
What is a mountain range?
The continent that is bordered by the Pacific ocean, Arctic ocean, and the Atlantic ocean.
What is North America?
The names of the two hemispheres where you can find the main landmass of the continent of Asia.
What is northern and eastern?
The name of the lines that run south to north.
What are longitudinal lines?
The exact location of a point on Earth's surface.
What is absolute location?
The beginning of a river.
a. mouth b. bay
c. source d. tributary
What is the source?
The largest peninsula in the world.
a. Florida b. Horn of Africa
c. India d. Spain
What is the Horn of Africa?
What is Tropic of Capricorn?
The number of oceans in the world.
What is one?
The name of the two categories of maps.
What are reference and thematic?
A larger body of water that cuts into the land.
a. gulf b. tributary
c. river d. bay
What is gulf?
The continent with the largest desert in the world.
What is Antarctica?
The continent considered to be the start of modern civilization.
What is Europe?
The name of the longest river in the world that flows from the south to the north.
What is the Nile River?
The person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer.
Formed when soil is deposited at the mouth of a river.
a. delta b. cape
c. isthmus d. peninsula
What is a delta?
The name of the longest river that only flows through a single country?
a. Amazon River b. Nile River
c. Yangzte River d. Missouri River
What is the Yangtze River?
The continent that has two land locked countries inside the continent.
What is South America (Bolivia & Paraguay)?
The percentage of Australia that is considered the "Outback".
a. 1/2 or 50% b. 3/4 or 75%
c. 1/3 or 33% d. 2/3 or 66%
What is 2/3 or 66%?