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map tools
bodies of water
types of maps
5 themes of geography
landforms
100
This is a tool used to measure distance on a map.
What is a scale?
100
This is a large area of water that is surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
100
This type of map shows what and where something is grown, raised or made.
What is a product map?
100
This theme is a specific point on the Earth (where people and things are).
What is location?
100
This a an area of low land between two mountains.
What is a valley?
200
This has pictures or symbols that represent places or things on a map.
What is a key (legend)?
200
This is an area of water that is mostly surrounded by land.
What is a bay?
200
This type of map shows rivers and mountain ranges.
What is a physical map?
200
This theme makes your location unique and different (for example, mountains or lakes).
What is place?
200
This is a strip of land that extends out into a body of water.
What is a peninsula?
300
This shows direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
300
This is a major body of water that covers large parts of the Earth.
What is an ocean?
300
This type of map shows the different climates, temperatures, or weather conditions of an area.
What is a weather map?
300
This theme is the way people have changed or altered the landscape (building houses).
What is human/environment interactions?
300
This is a mound of raise land that is smaller than a mountain.
What is a hill?
400
These are lines that run east and west on a globe.
What are lines of latitude?
400
This is a thin waterway that allows water to flow into a lake or ocean.
What is a river?
400
This type of map shows cities and capitals.
What is a political map?
400
This theme connects people, ideas, and materials that keep a community moving (air ports, bus stations, cell towers).
What is Movement?
400
This is a large area of flat land that is raised higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
500
These are lines that run north and south on a globe.
What are lines of longitude?
500
This is the largest and deepest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
This is a model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
500
This theme are things that are specific to your area-common factors (climate, landforms, bodies of water).
What is region?
500
This is a large crack in the earth formed by a river or earthquake.
What is a canyon?