Continents
Oceans
Types of Maps
Map Symbols
Globes vs. Maps
100

Name the largest continent.

What is Asia?
100

How many Oceans are on Earth?

What is 5.

100

This type of map shows the borders between countries.

What is a political map.

100

What is the reason for having a map scale on a map.

What is to show how far away or big things are in real life.

100

This is distortion.

What is when an object loses its original shape and size.

200

This continent is also an island and a country.

What is Australia

200

What Ocean separates Washington DC from Europe?

What is the Atlantic Ocean.

200

This type of maps shows where mountains are located.

What is an elevation map.

200

List the 4 cardinal directions.

What are North, South, East and West.

200

This is an advantage of globes.

What is the shape of a globe is the same as the Earth.  They are both spheres.  OR

There is no distortion on a globe.

300

This continent is home to the world's biggest rainforest and the world's biggest river.

What is South America.

300

What Ocean would you swim in if you visited a beach in California?

What is the Pacific.

300

This type of map shows which states get a lot of rainfall each year.

What is a rainfall map

300

Draw a Compass Rose on your whiteboard.

Answers may vary.

300

This is what we call half of a globe.

What is a hemisphere.

400

This continent is the most crowded.  

Hint:  It does not have the most people - it has the most people per square mile.

What is Europe.

400

This is the warmest Ocean.

What is the Indian Ocean.

400

This map shows where most of the people in the United States live.

What is a population density map.

400

The difference between a word scale and linear scale.

What is a word scale uses only words and a linear scale uses a straight line.

400

This is an advantage of maps.

What is maps can show small areas and show things in greater detail.

Maps are easier to take places.

500

This continent is a frozen desert.

What is Antarctica.

500

This is why geographers named five oceans on Earth.

What is geographers gave different names to sections of water separated by land.

500

List 3 things that can (should) be found on maps.

What is a title, map scale, compass rose, legend or map key.

500

These are pictures on a map to stand for something in the real world.

What are symbols.

500

This is a disadvantage of maps.

What is distortion.