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Physical and Cultural Features
Northeast/Southeast
The Globe
Map Features
Types of Maps
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These landforms are completely flat.
What are plains?
100
This feature of the Northeast produces electricity for the state of New York by using falling water.
What is Niagara Falls?
100
The Equator is the central line of what at 0 degrees.
What is latitude?
100
This tool compares the actual distances on the Earth to the distances on the map.
What is a map scale?
100
A map that shows the rivers and mountains and other natural features of a place is this type of map.
What is a physical map?
200
Landforms are shaped and formed by these things breaking apart the surface of the Earth.
What are ice, water, fire, and wind?
200
The Green Mountains, White Mountains, Catskills Mountains, and Appalachian Mountains attract these people to the Northeast.
What are tourists who vacation in the Northeast and spend money?
200
This is the central line of longitude measured at these degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian measured at 0 degrees?
200
This feature shows the cardinal and intermediate directions, and how they face on a map.
What is a compass rose?
200
A map that shows the number of dollars that people spend in a certain place each year is which type of map.
What is a data map?
300
Worshipping at a church is an example of this type of geography.
What is cultural geography?
300
The Southeast cuts down trees to make these products which are helpful to people.
What are pulp, paper, lumber to build houses, and oxygen?
300
The Prime Meridian divides the world into these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western hemispheres?
300
This is what a map key is used for.
What is to show what the colors and symbols on a map mean?
300
A map that shows the borders between countries is this type of map?
What is a political, specifically a boundary, map?
400
Peninsulas, the landform surrounded by land on three sides, are an example of this type of geography.
What is physical geography?
400
This is the reason why the Southeast grows more crops than the Northeast.
What is that the Southeast is warmer for longer and therefore has a longer growing season?
400
To find the coordinates of a place, you must first find the horizontal line of latitude that touches it, and then you find this.
What is the vertical line of longitude that touches it?
400
These are the intermediate directions on a compass rose.
What are Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest?
400
This type of map uses lines to show different heights in a place, and when the lines are close together, it means you have a steep mountain.
What is a topographic map?
500
Language, food, religion, and culture are all components of what.
What is culture, the way a group of people lives?
500
This is why the crops of the Southeast grow on the coasts.
What is that the crops need to be near the water to grow?
500
The United States is in these two hemispheres because it is above the Equator and to the left of the Prime Meridian.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
500
This text provides geographic information on countries, continents, and states by using maps, charts, and tables.
What is an atlas?
500
This type of map uses dark colors to show low landforms and light colors to show high elevations.
What is a relief map?