Maps
The Continent that we live on
What is North America
What shape is the earth?
What is a sphere
What is a hemisphere?
What is half a sphere
The state that I live in
What is New York
What is an ocean?
What is a large body of water
What is the capital of the United States?
What is Washington, D.C.
What is a compass rose?
What is a small drawing on a map that shows direction
The number of oceans on earth
What is 5
The Intermediate directions are?
What are... Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
These are cardinal directions
What are... North, South, East, West
The Northern most point on the globe is called this
What is North Pole
What is the capital of the Massachusetts?
What is Boston
The number of continents
What is 7
Line that splits the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is Equator
Invisible Line that splits the globe into eastern and western hemispheres
What is Prime Meridian
The country that I live in
What is The United States
The Study of the world around us and its people is called:
What is Geography
What is a mapmaker called?
What is Cartographer
Name the 4 Key features every map needs
What are... Title, Key/legend, Scale, Compass Rose
Name the 5 major oceans
What are... Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean
A continent is:
What is a large mass of land
On a map key, what do we call the pictures that stand for something else?
What is Symbols
What is a key/legend?
What is something that tells what each symbol on the map stands for
An exact location on Earth is called
What is Absolute Location
List the continents
What are... North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, Africa
These lines run from west to east and are parallel to the equator
What is lines of latitude
This imaginary line is located a 0 degrees and runs East/West
What is The Equator
This runs North/South and is 0 degrees
What is Prime Meridian
These lines run north to south and measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
What are lines of longitude
A location that is based on things it is near is called...
What is a relative location
What type of map shows cities, states and capitals
What is Political Map
What continent is located in all 4 hemispheres
What is Africa
Name the subcontinent
What is India
The part of a map that helps compare real distances to other distances on a map is called....
What is A map scale
The patterns of horizontal and vertical lines that crisscross are called...
What are Grids
Land forms such as mountains, river, plains, deserts, etc. are known as....
What are physical features