Geography
A symbol on a map that shows special directions to help people navigate.
What is a compass rose?
An imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.
What is the Equator?
The misrepresentation of shape, area, distance, or direction of or between geographic features when compared to their true measurements on the curved surface of the earth.
What is Distortion (on a map)?
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a Cape?
A body of land surrounded by water.
What is an Island?
The four directions are north (N), east (E), south (S), west (W), at 90° angles on the compass rose.
What are the Cardinal Directions?
A unit of latitude or longitude used to define points on the earth's surface or on the celestial sphere.
What are Degrees (as in location)?
A list of symbols that appear on the map to represent something else.
What is the Key (Legend)?
Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
What is a Delta?
A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
What is an Isthmus?
They are formed by bisecting the above, giving: northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW) and northwest (NW).
How are the four intercardinal (or ordinal) directions formed?
The geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A group of islands.
What is a Archipelago?
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
What is a fjord?
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
Imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run east to west, but measure your distance north or south.
What are the Lines of Latitude?
It refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground- map scale.
What is Scale (on a map)?
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
What is a Bay?
A portion of the ocean that penetrates land.
What is a Gulf?
A lake or an inlet of the sea.
What is a Loch?
Imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.
What are the Lines of Longitude.
The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.
What is Geography?
An artificial waterway designed for navigation that people could cross the water with boats or ships.
What is a Canal?
A body of water sheltered by natural or artificial barriers. Harbors can provide safe anchorage and permit the transfer of cargo and passengers between ships and the shore.
What is a Harbor?
The portion of a land that is nearby water that is connected to a larger body by an isthmus.
What is a Peninsula?