Map Skills 1
The number of oceans in the world
What is 5?
The number of continents in the world
What is 7?
The Appalachian and the Sierra Nevada are examples of
What are Mountain Ranges?
Name the oceans of the world
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern
The number of states in the USA
What are 50 states?
Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast are called
Intermediate Directions
North, South, East, West are called
What are Cardinal Directions?
This physical feature is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a Peninsula?
The 5 regions of the USA
Northeast, South east, Midwest, Southwest, West
The smallest state in the USA
What is Rhode Island?
The hottest area on Earth, located at 0 degrees latitude and cuts the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
What is the equator?
The point on a map located at 0 degrees longitude ad cuts Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
Cape is to peninsula as ______ is to gulf
What is bay?
The most important way rivers and lakes helped the USA
What are routes to travel and trade?
The largest state in the USA
What is Alaska?
Imaginary lines that run from East to West
What are Parallels of Latitude?
Imaginary lines that run from North to South
What are Meridians of Longitude?
A tributary flowing into the Mississippi River from the east
What is the Ohio River?
The land feature southeast of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Gulf Coastal Plain?
The capital of South Dakota
What is Pierre?
North America is located in these hemispheres
What is the Northern and Western hemispheres?
The continent located in all 4 hemispheres
What is Africa?
The 2 major landforms the Wilsons crossed on their trip from Missouri to California during the Gold Rush
What are the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Great Basin (desert).
Two rivers that form parts of the United States border
What are the St. Lawrence River and Rio Grande
The state whose capital is Cheyenne
What is Wyoming?