Map Vocabulary
Massachusetts Symbols
Massachusetts Facts
Map Skills
More Massachusetts Facts
100

A map that shows land and water forms.

What is a physical map?

100

Name the state tree.

What is Elm tree?

100

Spell the state we live in.

M-A-S-S-A-C-H-U-S-E-T-T-S

100

Name the four directions on a map.

What is North, South, East, West

100

Massachusetts is called the  ______________ state.

What is the bean state?

200

A map that shows human created boundaries like countries, states, and cities.

What is a political map?

200

Name the state flower. 

What is the Mayflower?

200

Name the city that we live in.

What is Worcester?

200

Name two rivers in Massachusetts.

What is Housatonic, Connecticut, Merrimack, and Charles River?

200

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in ____________, Massachusetts.Name this city.

What is Plymouth?

300

The four main directions on a compass, North, South, East and West.

What are cardinal directions?

300

Name the state muffin.

What is the corn muffin?

300

Name the continent we live on.

What is North America?

300

Name the New England States.

What is Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont?

300

Name the second largest city in Massachusetts.

What is Worcester?

400

A tool to measure distance on a map.

What is a map scale?

400

Name the state bug. 

What is the Ladybug?

400

Name the capital of Massachusetts.

What is Boston?

400

Tell what the star symbol represents on a map.

What is a state capital?

400

Spell the city we live in.

What is W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R?

500

A description of what symbols on a map respresent.

What is a legend?

500

Name the state bird.

What is the black capped chickadee?

500

Name the ocean that borders Massachusetts.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

500
The landform between the Housatonic River and the Connecticut River.

What is mountains?

500

Name a state symbol that we did not mention yet. 

What is ( any symbol not mentioned yet)?