Let's Map it Out!
Best class ever?
History
What are the biggest bodies of water called?
Oceans
What are the biggest landforms called?
Hint: There are 7 of them.
Continents
This is the continent we are located on
Harlem is this type of region
(Possible answers include: borough, city, neighborhood, state, country, continent)
What is a neighborhood?
A visual representation of an area.
Choices: map, camera, phone
What is a map
The second-largest ocean, separating the Americas from Europe and Africa
What is the Atlantic Ocean
This continent is also its own country
What is Australia
This continent is home to the Amazon Rainforest
What is South America?
The imaginary horizontal line that divides the earth into 2 parts (the northern and southern hemisphere)
Equator
A spherical or ball shaped, model of the entire planet.
What is globe
This ocean touches both the continents of North America and Asia (its also the largest ocean on the planet)
Which is the SECOND largest continent?
Africa
The Ancient Egyptian civilization were located on this continet
What is Africa?
This map feature helps you approximate distances between points on a map
What is a map scale / scale bar
What is another name for a map key?
Legend
This is the northern most ocean, circling the north pole
The coldest continent, covered almost entirely in ice
What is Antarctica?
This Ancient Civilization is known to have created the alphabet we use today
And What continent did they come from?
Who are the Greeks!
Europe
A map feature shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.
What is a compass rose
These are a system of imaginary lines to divide up space on maps
What is a map grid?
This ocean is located at Earths southern most point, surrounding the continent of Antarctica
What is the southern ocean?
This is the largest continent in the world! Home to over 4 billion people
What is Asia?
This Ancient Civilization is credited for their invention of the wheel
Who are the Mesopotamians?
These are places/points where map grid lines overlap/cross
Coordinates