Map Skills
Landforms
On the Globe
Misc.
100
Where objects on a map are represented using symbols
What is a map key?
100
a landform with water all around it
What is an island?
100
Half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
100
The kind of weather a place has over a long time
What is climate?
200
The state north of California (look on a map using google earth)
What is Oregon?
200
a landform that has water on only three sides
What is a peninsula?
200
The point on the earth farthest from the equator
What is a pole?
200
Name all 7 continents.
What is Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, South America, Europe, Antarctica
300
all four cardinal directions
What is north, east, south, and west?
300
a large body of ocean water that is partly surrounded by land
What is a gulf?
300
Temperatures here are usually warm, and this is the invisible line that divides the northern and southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
300
Name the following from largest to smallest. -Country -Town -Planet -State -Continent
What is planet, continent, country, state, and town?
400
where you should look to see what the map represents
What is the map title?
400
large body of salt water
What is an ocean?
400
shape of the globe
What is a sphere?
400
Why do we have seasons?
The earth orbits around the sun and is tilted slightly as it is moving.