Map stuff
A symbol on a map showing the four cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
A body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
The study of the physical features of the Earth.
What is geography?
An imaginary line around the middle of a planet
What is an equator?
Broad inlet where the land curves inward.
What is a bay?
the main directions of north, south, east, and west.
What are the cardinal directions?
A body of land that is surrounded by water.
What is an island?
Low area between a hill and a mountain.
What is a valley?
A unit of latitude/longitude used to define points on a celestial body.
What are degrees?
A part of the ocean close to land.
What is a sea?
Four directions formed by bisecting the main 4.
Northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest.
A portion of the ocean that penetrates land.
What is a gulf?
An area known for the climate, landforms, and types of wildlife located there.
What is a biome?
Refers to the ratio between distance on a map and corresponding distance ground.
What is scale?
A length of water wider than a strait.
What is a channel?
Imaginary lines that divide the Earth.
What are the lines of latitude and longitude?
An artificial water body designed for navigation.
What is a canal?
A rising landform higher than the area around it on one side.
What is a plateau?
Wetlands that form when rivers empty their water and sediment into another water body.
What are deltas?
A high point of land extending into a body of water.
What is a Cape?
The misrepresentation of features on a map.
What is distortion?
A long, deep water body that reaches far inland.
What is a fjord?
A group of islands close to each other.
What is an archipelago?
Geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory in England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A narrow piece of land connecting two pieces of land, those two being otherwise separated by a body of water.
What is an isthmus?