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Map Skills
Landforms
Incredible Inca
Almighty Aztecs
Mysterious Maya
100
This part of the map tells us what the symbols and features on the map mean.
What is map key/ legend?
100
This is the largest body of salt water and covers much of Earth's surface.
What is an ocean?
100
This is the continent that the Inca lived on.
What is South America?
100
This was the population of the Aztec empire
What is 5 million?
100
This was the capital of the Mayan empire.
What is Tikal?
200
This is the shape of Earth.
What is a sphere?
200
This landform is the highest kind of land.
What is a mountain?
200
This mountain range was home to the Inca empire.
What is the Andes Mountains?
200
The capital of the Aztec empire
What is Tenochtitlan?
200
The food is often known as maize.
What is corn?
300
This line separates Earth into a Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
300
This landform is high, mostly flat land.
What is a plateau?
300
The Inca did what to expand their empire?
What is conquer neighboring tribes?
300
The Aztecs invented this in order to farm on their swampy lands, they are refereed to as chinampas by the Aztec.
What are floating gardens?
300
The Mayan empire ended long before Europeans arrived, these were possible causes of their disappearance.
What is fighting within the empire led to it's end, disease or natural disaster, or a drought causing a decline in their crops?
400
This kind of map would show landforms such as mountains, rivers, lakes, etc.
What is a physical map?
400
This is landform is where a river flows or empties into a larger body of water.
What is the mouth of the river?
400
Many of the Inca died from exposure to this disease.
What is smallpox?
400
Besides disease, this was a major reason why the Spanish were able to conquer the Aztecs.
What is the Spanish had modern weapons, horses, and dogs?
400
This animal was very sacred (important) to the Mayans.
What is the jaguar?
500
If the map scale reads every inch equals 200 miles, how many miles would 3 and a half inches equal?
What is 700 miles?
500
Which body of water is the largest on Earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
Describe how the Inca modified their environments in order to feed their empire. (Be sure to tell the problem they faced, what they invented to solved it, and how it worked)
What is the Inca lived in the Andes Mountains which provided very little flat land to farm so they built terraces by carving into the side of the mountain to create flat, staircase like farms?
500
The Aztecs performed many of these to please and worship their gods.
What is human sacrifice?
500
The Mayans based their math on this number.
What is 20?