MAPS
A map that shows landforms and water features.
What is Physical Map?
The natural features of the land's surface.
What are Landforms?
An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole.
What is an equator?
Land suitable for growing crops.
What is arable land?
A map that shows the names and borders of countries.
What is a Political Map?
Formed by two continental plates colliding and forcing each other upwards.
What are mountains?
The meridian, designated at 0° longitude, which passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England.
What is the prime meridian?
An area of lush vegetation and year-round rainfall.
What is a rainforest?
Explains the meaning of symbols used on a map.
What is a map legend?
A body of land completely surrounded by water.
What is an island?
Half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
Study of the earth.
What is geography?
A list of map symbols that tells what each symbol stands for.
What is a map key?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
What is an Isthmus?
Lines that run east to west and are parallel to the Equator.
What are Latitude lines?
Areas sharing the same time.
What are time zones?
A symbol on a map that represents a mountain.
What is a triangle on a map?
An area of low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
Imaginary north-south lines that run vertically around the globe parallel to the Prime Meridian.
What are Longitude lines?
Overall weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A symbol that indicates this is a capitol.
What is a star on a map?
A series of connected mountains.
What is a mountain range?
A unit for measuring angles.
What are degrees?
Time zone for New York city.
What is the eastern time zone?
A symbol that represents a river.
What is a squiggly line on a map?
An extremely dry area with little water and few plants.
What is a desert?
A round model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
Time zone for Texas.
What is the central time zone?
The color gold on map.
What color is a desert on a Physical map?
A large area of flat land elevated high above sea level.
What is a plateau?
Time zone for California.
What is the Pacific Time Zone?
The color green on a map.
What color is land that is good for farming?
A region drained by a river system.
What is a basin?
Time zone for Arizona.
What is the Mountain Time Zone?
The color yellow on a map.
What color is high land or dry land on a map?
Large natural stream of water that runs through the land.
What is a river?
Warm, moist climate zone near the equator.
What is tropical?
The color brown on a map.
What color is a mountain range on a map?
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
A straight line on Political map.
What represents a border on a Political map?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?