Directions
The cardinal directions.
What are North, South, East, and West?
Wetlands that form as rivers empty their water and sediment into another body of water.
An island is a body of land surrounded by water.
What is an island?
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 is latitude.
The intercardinal directions.
What are Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest?
A high point of land that extends into a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a cape (Geographically, not like a superhero)?
A portion of the ocean that penetrates land.
What is a gulf?
The ocean by the party surrounding land and there are about 50 of these that include water bodies.
What is the sea?
Imaginary lines that divide the Earth. They run north to south from pole to pole, but they measure the distance east or west.
What is Longitude?
The study of physical features of Earth and its atmosphere.
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?
A rising landform that grows higher than the area around it on one side.
A list of symbols that appear on the map to represent something else.
What is a key/legend (on a map)?
The equator.
What is an imaginary line around the middle of a plant or celestial body?
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward?
A long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.
What is a fjord?
A lake or an inlet of the sea.
What is a loch/lock?
Refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground-map scale.
What is Scale?
A unit of Latitude/Longitude used to define points on Earth's surface or on the celestial sphere.
What is degrees (as in location)?
What is an Archipelago?
A group of islands.
A narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
What is an Isthmus?
The branch that flows into the mainstream to the White River, the Arkansas River and Red River.
What is a tributary?
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 disorientation?