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Water Related
High Places
Imaginary Lines
Other Landforms
100
Show how you can travel from one place to another
What is a road map
100
The largest body of water.
What is an ocean?
100
An area of land that raises high above the ground.
What is a mountain?
100
An imaginary line halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is the Equator?
100
An area between mountains or hills
What is a hill?
200
The main directions: North, South, East, and West
What are the cardinal directions?
200
The land along an ocean, sea, or gulf.
What is a coast?
200
A rounded, raised, landform; not as high as a mountain.
What is a hill?
200
Imaginary lines on a map or globe that run north and south
What are lines of longitude?
200
A large area of almost flat land
What is a plain?
300
A small drawing on a map that helps to show direction.
What is a compass rose?
300
A land form completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
300
A hollow mountain that rocks flows through from the center of the earth.
What is a volcano?
300
Imaginary lines on a map or globe running east and west.
What are lines of latitude?
300
A huge sheet of ice that slowly moves across the land
What is a glacier?
400
Shows the relationship between distances shown on a map and real distances in miles or kilometers.
What is a map scale/scale?
400
A place where boats load and unload people and things.
What is a port / harbor?
400
An area of higher, flat land.
What is a plateau?
400
Zero degrees longitude. This imaginary line runs north and south from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
A man-made body of water made for boats to travel on from one place to another
What is a canal?
500
Shows cities, capital cities, states, and borders of countries.
What is a political map?
500
A wall built in a body of water to trap and store water.
What is a dam?
500
A group or row of mountains.
What is a range?
500
Half of a globe or sphere
What is a hemisphere?
500
A low landform with high sides. It is made by a river cutting out part of the land, slowly making it deeper and deeper.
What is a canyon