Map Features
Most map makers use a to ____ show the cardinal and intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
A _____ map shows natural features.
What is a physical map?
The Midwest is a ______ region because it does not border any ocean.
What is an inland?
To describe the exact location of a place on Earth, mapmakers use a system of ___.
What are latitude and longitude lines?
A _____ shows the relationship between map distances and real distances.
What is a scale?
What are cities, capitals, states, and countries?
A ____ is a high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it.
What is a plateau?
Lines of latitude run in what direction.
What is east and west?
A map that shows just one type of information, & give an example.
What is a special-purpose map? Ex: Road map, elevation map.
A _______ is a bowl-shaped landform that is lower than the land around it.
What is a basin?
What is oceans/water?
A grid that covers all of Earth is called a.
What is a global grid?
What kind of information does a physical map show, and give 2 examples?
What is landforms (such as mountains, valleys, and plains) or bodies of water?
Name the 5 regions of the United States.
Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, West, Southwest
Lines of longitude run in what direction?
What is north and south?