Map Skills
On a map scale, what is the type of measurement used in the United States?
What are miles?
When mountains are grouped together, they are called this.
What is a mountain range?
Which body of water is similar to a river, but much smaller?
What is a creek?
Which country can you find the Appalachian Mountain Range?
What is the United States of America?
Small representations of real places and things on Earth.
What are symbols?
What is the name of a small plateau?
What is a butte?
What is a large body of water surrounded by land?
What is a lake?
What state in the U.S.A. can you find the tallest Mountain called Denali?
What is Alaska?
What is another name for legend?
What is Key?
What continent has the Sierra Nevada, Rocky, and Appalachian Mountain?
What is North America?
Which bodies of water contain fresh water? Name at least 2.
What are:
creeks, rivers, lakes, and ponds?
What is the place in a river called where water spills suddenly downward?
What is a waterfall?
What is another name for a compass rose?
What is a windrose?
Name three ways landforms are created.
What is by:
erosion, glaciers, earthquakes, and volcanos?
What is one major difference between rivers and lakes?
What are that rivers flow and lakes are still?
How tall must a landform be in order to be called a mountain?
What is it must be at least a 1,000 feet?
What are four intermediate directions?
What is NE, NW, SE, and SW?
What hot substance under the Earth's surface formed the plateaus?
What is magma?
What are the names of the five oceans on Earth?
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern?
Ms. Crain grew up around which landform?
What are the plains?