Continents & Oceans
This is a large continuous land mass on Earth.
What is a continent?
Earth’s rotation causes this daily cycle.
What is day and night?
I have a face and two hands, but no arms or legs.
What is a clock?
This map part explains symbols on a map
What is a legend (key)?
This theme answers the question “Where is it?”
What is Location?
There are this many continents on Earth.
What are seven?
The Prime Meridian is located at this degree of longitude.
What is 0°?
What has keys but no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but you can’t go outside?
What is a keyboard?
This map part shows cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
This theme describes physical and human characteristics of a place.
What is Place?
This continent contains the Himalayas and Mount Everest.
What is Asia?
Each time zone represents roughly this many degrees of longitude.
What is 15°?
I go up and down but never move.
What are stairs?
A physical map primarily shows these features.
What are physical features?
Irrigation and bridge-building fall under this theme.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This ocean is the largest on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Traveling west across the International Date Line does this to the calendar day.
What is add one day?
What gets wetter the more it dries?
What is a towel?
A map showing election results by state is this type.
What is a thematic map?
Trade, migration, and the internet fall under this theme.
What is Movement?
These continents are connected by the Isthmus of Panama.
What are North and South America?
Time zones exist primarily for this reason.
What is to keep time consistent with daylight around the world?
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same.
What is a barber?
Without this map element, you could not accurately measure how far apart two cities are in real life.
What is the scale?
Central America is an example of this theme.
What is Region?
The Ural Mountains traditionally separate these two continents.
What are Europe and Asia?
If it is noon at the Prime Meridian, the time 45° west is this.
What is 9 AM?
What has an eye but cannot see?
What is a needle?
The exact location using latitude and longitude is called this.
What is absolute location?
Studying the spread of disease uses this theme.
What is Movement?
This continent contains the Sahara Desert.
What is Africa?
The International Date Line is located near this longitude.
What is 180°?
The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
What are footprints?
Lines that run east-west on a globe are called these.
What is latitude?
A farmer changing crops due to drought illustrates this theme.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
This is the coldest and driest continent.
What is Antarctica?
Political borders cause time zone lines to have this characteristic shape.
What is irregular?
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves.
What is a bank?
This projection is best for navigation because it shows direction accurately.
What is the Mercator Projection?
“Omaha is west of the Mississippi River” is an example of this theme.
What is Location?
Oceans cover approximately this percentage of Earth’s surface.
What is about 71%?
Earth rotates once every this many hours.
What is 24 hours?
What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
What is a stamp?
This projection is nearly as accurate as a globe for world maps.
What is the Goode/Interrupted Projection?
Climate, language, and government can define this theme.
What is Region?
Madagascar is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
Time zones do not always follow straight longitude lines because countries adjust them to match this.
What are political borders?
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What is an echo?
This projection shows land areas at true size but breaks oceans apart.
What is the Goode (Interrupted) Projection?
This theme focuses on how people depend on, adapt to, and modify the environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?