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100
A line on a map that shows where a state or a country ends
What is a border?
100
A period of time lasting 100 years
What is a century?
100
A box on a map in which map symbols are explained.
What is a map key?
100
A small community that is close to a city
What is a suburb?
100
This was one of the first businesses in Mount Dora
What is an orange-packing factory?
200
A picture that shows the location of things
What is a map?
200
A period of time lasting 10 years
What is a decade?
200
This is used to measure the distance between two places
What is a distance or map scale?
200
An area in the countryside that is away from cities and large towns
What is a rural area?
200
A drawing that shows when and in what order events took place
What is a time line?
300
A record made by people who saw or took part in an event
What is a primary source?
300
An object that was used by people in the past
What is an artifact?
300
Mount Dora's population changed over the years because
What is transportation routes improved and businesses grew?
300
A model of the planet Earth
What is a globe?
300
The state that Mount Dora is located in
What is Florida?
400
A place where a community is found
What is a location?
400
A map with landforms
What is a physical map?
400
Explain one way Mount Dora has changed over the years
What is there are more homes and businesses and the population has grown?
400
A person that helps settle a new land
What is a pioneer?
400
This type of transportation reached Mount Dora in 1887. It carried visitors to Mount Dora and helped to ship fruit to other parts of the country
What is the railroad?
500
A map labeling the boundaries of countries, cities, and oceans
What is a political map?
500
The main directions: north, south, east, and west
What are cardinal directions?
500
Explain one way Mount Dora has stayed the same
What is people still live and work in the town and they raise families. They also enjoy the beautiful and peaceful lakes near their homes?
500
One of the first pioneers to arrive in Mount Dora
Who is David Simpson?
500
The name of the Native Americans who lived in the area around Mount Dora
Who are the Timucua Indians?