Landforms
An area of low land with mountains or hills on either side
What is valley?
A flow of water that goes to an ocean or lake
What is river?
the largest continent
What is Asia?
the ocean we swim in on the eastern side of the United States
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
the four cardinal directions on a compass rose
A piece of land that has water all around it
What is island?
What is ocean?
the continent home to the United States, Canada, and Mexico
What is North America?
the ocean between the coast of California and Japan
What is the Pacific Ocean?
a list of symbols that appear on the map
What is the map key or legend?
A low flat area usually with no trees
What are plains?
a large inland body of salt or freshwater
the two continents located completely in the southern hemisphere
What is Australia and Antarctica?
the ocean south of Iran, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh
What is the Indian Ocean?
describes the theme or subject of a map
What is the map title?
A rounded piece of earth that rises above the land but is smaller than a mountain
What is a hill?
What is pond?
the continent home to the Sahara Desert
What is Africa?
Earth's northernmost body of water. It is also the smallest world ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
the relationship between a distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the earth
A dry sandy area with few plants and little rainfall
What is desert?
water falling from a height, formed when a river or stream flows over a steep incline
What is waterfall?
the continent home to the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa
What is Europe?
the most southerly of the planet's five oceans
This type of map shows the physical features of a place or country, like rivers, mountains, forests and lakes. The features are usually shown in different colors.
What is a physical map?