Map Components
Types of Maps and Graphs
Continents and Oceans
Bodies of Water
Other Geographic Landforms
100
This is used to navigate direction on a map.
What is a compass rose?
100
This map is used to find resources of a country.
What is resource map?
100
Ms. Suber will point at map.
What is Africa?
100
This body of water is surrounded by land on all sides.
What is a lake?
100
This opening in the Earth has lava, gas, and rock being forced out of it.
What is a volcano?
200
These are the cardinal directions on a map.
What is North, South, East, and West?
200
This map is used to find capital cities.
What is political map?
200
Ms. Suber will point at map
What is Arctic Ocean?
200
This body of water is constantly moving and usually empties into a sea or ocean.
What is a river?
200
This land is 1000 feet or higher.
What is a mountain?
300
This is used to measure distance on a map.
What is the map scale?
300
This is what the bottom axis of a graph is called.
What is the x-axis?
300
Ms. Suber will point at map.
What is Europe?
300
This body of water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface.
What is an ocean?
300
This is a flat area of land that is higher than surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
400
This is used to understand symbols on a map.
What is the map key?
400
This map is used to see borders between countries.
What is the political map?
400
Ms. Suber will point at map (must get both to get points!)
What is Atlantic Ocean and North America?
400
This large body of water is connected to the ocean and is usually found where the ocean and land meet.
What is a sea?
400
This is where a river falls off of a cliff steeply.
What is a waterfall?
500
Explain the difference between a river and a lake on a map.
The river is a long line while the lake is a circular shape that can hold something.
500
What does a bar or line graph measure?
What is the relationship between a variable and time (or may vary based on situation)?
500
Ms Suber will point at map (need both to get points!)
What is Australia and Pacific Ocean?
500
Name the similarities and differences of the gulf and bay.
The gulf and bay are both partly surrounded by land, but a gulf is much larger than a bay.
500
This is an area of flat land that lies along a body of water.
What are coastal plains?