Name ALL of the directions found on a compass rose.
What are North, East, South, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest?
100
A small mountain with a flat top.
What is a mesa?
100
A body of water with land all around it.
What is a lake?
100
A place on the map that explains what the symbols mean, often in a corner of the map.
What is a key/legend?
200
A place where the land is high, but the landforms are rounded at the tops.
What is a hill?
200
The United States is part of this continent.
What is North America?
200
This landforms is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
A very large stream that carries water to lakes or oceans.
What is a river?
200
A 3-D, spherical map of the world.
What is a globe?
300
A place where the land is very high with pointed peaks.
What is a mountain?
300
This kind of map shows symbols for cities and boundaries for states, provinces, or countries.
What is a political map?
300
This mountain shaped landform has lava forming in its center.
What is a volcano?
300
A body of land with water all around it
What is an island?
300
A small picture or symbol that shows the cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
400
A low, flat places between hills or mountains.
What is valley?
400
If you want to know about the geography of a place you can use this to help you.
This kind of map shows you a region's physical features such a mountains, plains, plateaus, lakes, rivers and oceans.
What is a physical map?
400
This landform is a deep narrow valley with steep sides.
What is a Canyon?
400
When a stream of water encounters a very sharp drop in elevation, this is formed.
What is a waterfall?
400
A ruler or segmented line on a map that compares distance on the map to distance on the earth.
What is a scale?
500
A dry, hot place where very little rain falls.
What is a desert?
500
This is a book of maps.
What is an atlas?
500
This is an area of high, flat land with steep sides.
What is a plateau?
500
Name one of the four major oceans.
What is the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean or Indian Ocean?
500
The imaginary lines that create a grid to find directions on a map.