Maps 1
The directional arrow that shows the orientation of the map.
What is a compass rose?
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The relationship between distance on the map and distance in real life.
What is scale?
A thick bed of ice that covers a continent or a river of thick ice that moves slowly down a slope or valley.
What is a glacier?
A place where a large number of people live close together; an urban area.
What is city?
A body of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
This lists the symbols used on a map and tells what they mean.
What is a Key (or Legend)?
Imaginary lines drawn north and south that run from pole to pole.
What is longitude?
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A piece of land that juts into a body of water and is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
What is a place made under the authority of one of the governments that makes up a federal union?
What is a state?
The human made line on a map or globe halfway between the north and south poles. Divides the globe into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A sphere-shaped model of Earth.
What is a Globe?
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Imaginary lines drawn around the globe that run east ot west.
What is latitude?
A valley with steep sides and a flat bottom, usually cut into the rock by a river.
What is a canyon?
Halves of the earth.
What are hemispheres?
Human made line that divides the earth into eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This type of map shows how humans have divided up the Earth's surface.
What is a political map?
The position of a particular point on the Earth's surface.
What is location?
A body of moving water, fresh or salty, with reeds growing in it; it is usually near a river or sea coast.
What is a marsh?
The territory of a nation
Country
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The three types of natural features.
What are physical, atmospheric and living?
This type of map shows patterns related to the behavior of a group of people.
What is a cultural map?
How we describe an area.
What is place?
A curved area along a coast or shore where the water juts into the land.
What is a bay?
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The largest administrative division of a U.S. state.
What is a county?
The point on the earth located at 90 degrees north latitude, where the lines of longitude meet.
What is the Geographic North Pole?