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Parts of a Map
Landforms
Waterways
Miscellaneous
Types of Maps
100
A symbol that shows directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
100
A large crack in Earth's crust that can cause earthquakes.
What is a fault?
100
A large natural stream of fresh water that flows into a lake or an ocean.
What is a river?
100
North, South, East and West
What are the Cardinal Directions?
100
A map that shows natural land forms and waterways on Earth's surface.
What is a physical map?
200
A smaller map set within the border of a larger one.
What is an inset map?
200
An area of low ground between two hills.
What is a valley?
200
A large body of fresh water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
200
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest.
What are the intermediate directions?
200
A map that has either numbers or letters going across the top and either numbers or letters going down one side.
What is a map grid?
300
A list that explains the symbols on a map.
What is a legend (key)?
300
A large, flat area of land.
What is plains?
300
A large area of ocean partly surrounded by land.
What is a gulf?
300
A graphic that compares the distance on a map to the distance it represents.
What is a bar scale?
300
A map that shows borders between countries or states, locations of cities and towns, roadways, or other human-made features.
What is a political map?
400
A pattern of lines that form squares.
What is a grid?
400
An area of high, flat land.
What is plateau?
400
Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Huron.
What are the Great Lakes?
400
Height of the land above sea level.
What is elevation?
400
The type of map you would use to find where the Rocky Mountains are located.
What is a physical map?
500
An alphabetical listing of place names on a map and the grid squares in which they are found.
What is an index?
500
A chain of mountains.
What is a mountain range?
500
Body of water that is on west coast of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
Mountain range located in the western part of the United States.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
500
A map that shows places or events from the past.
What is a history map?