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Map Skills
Geography Skills
Geographical Locations
Weather
Regions
100
a small drawing on a map that shows directions
What is a compass rose?
100
one of Earth's seven great bodies of land
What is a continent?
100
the capital of Mississippi
What is Jackson?
100
a swirling destructive funnel cloud
What is a tornado?
100
the region of Mississippi in which we live
What is the Gulf Coast?
200
the main directions of a globe
What are cardinal directions?
200
one of Earth's four largest bodies of water
What is an ocean?
200
where a river begins
What is the source?
200
the measure of how hot or cold it is
What is temperature?
200
the region of the country in which we live
What is the Southeast?
300
shows the relationship between the distance shown on a map and the real distance on Earth
What is a scale?
300
an imaginary line that lies halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole at 0 degress latitude
What is the equator?
300
where the river ends
What is the mouth?
300
moisture that falls as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
300
the 4 states that border Mississippi
What are Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
400
anything that stands for something else
What is a symbol?
400
shapes that make up the surface of Earth
What are landforms?
400
borders most of the western side of Mississippi
What is the Mississippi River?
400
a violent storm with strong winds and heavy rain
What is a hurricane?
400
the 5 regions of the United States
What are Northeast, Southeast, West, Middle West, and Southwest?
500
an explanation of what the symbols on a map represent
What is a map key?
500
the study of Earth and all the living things on it
What is geography?
500
once an important transportation route from Natchez, MS to Nashville, TN
What is the Natchez Trace?
500
moisture in the air
What is humidity?
500
the effects the Gulf of Mexico has on the climate of the Gulf Coast region
What is it makes the summers cooler and the winters warmer because of the Gulf Breeze?