Types of Maps
This type of map shows landforms like mountains and rivers.
What is a physical map?
This symbol shows directions like north, south, east, and west.
What is a compass rose?
Latitude lines run in this direction.
What is east–west?
There are this many continents on Earth.
What is seven?
Earth is the only planet known to have this essential feature for life.
What is liquid water?
This map shows borders, countries, and capitals.
What is a political map?
This part of a map explains what symbols and colors mean.
What is a map key or legend?
The main line of latitude is called this.
What is the Equator?
This is the largest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The tallest mountain in the world is this.
What is Mount Everest?
This kind of map shows population, climate, or rainfall.
What is a thematic map?
This shows how distances on a map relate to real-life distances.
What is a map scale?
The main line of longitude is called this.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Africa is located mostly in this hemisphere.
What is the Eastern Hemisphere (and partly Southern)?
The longest river in the world is this.
What is the Nile River (or Amazon, depending on the measurement used)?
A globe shows the whole Earth in this shape, while a map shows it in this shape.
What is a sphere and a flat surface?
The arrows or “N” on this part of a map tell you which way is north.
What is the north arrow?
The point where latitude and longitude meet is called this.
What is a coordinate?
This is the smallest continent.
What is Australia?
This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Because maps are flat, they can’t show Earth’s round surface perfectly. The ways mapmakers stretch or shrink parts of the Earth are called this.
What are map projections?
The name that tells you what a map is showing.
What is a map title?
If you move north, the latitude numbers do this; if you move south, they do this.
What is increase when moving north and decrease when moving south?
Name all seven continents.
What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica?
The imaginary line where each new day begins is called this.
What is the International Date Line?