Maps and Globes
The imaginary line that wraps around the earth like a belt that divides it into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Area with at least one characteristic or feature that sets it apart from other areas.
What is a region?
What is North America?
Geographic features that were made by PEOPLE.
What are Human Characteristics?
Type of map used to measure how far about sea level a place is.
What is an ELEVATION map?
The imaginary line that divides the earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Region with LOW elevation, lots of rainfall, and includes the state of FLORIDA.
What is the SOUTHEAST region?
The two hemispheres the North America are found (United States).
Interstate highway system used to travel by car, bus, or trucks.
What is the Transportation Network?
Type of map used to measure the amount of precipitation a place gets.
What is a RAINFALL map?
These lines run from EAST to WEST (or side to side) around the globe to help find places on Earth.
What are lines of Latitude?
Region where you would find the state of Michigan.
What is the Midwest Region?
Physical characteristic found in the western part of the United States and is our largest mountain region.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
Built over large bodies of water to get from one piece of land to another like the Mighty Mackinac.
What is a bridge?
Type of map used to show areas that have similarities.
What is a REGION map?
This symbol helps us remember never to eat soggy waffles AND which direction we are going.
What is the compass rose (cardinal directions)?
Region where you would find deserts, cattle, and some of the Rocky Mountains.
What is the Southwest Region?
Geographic features that were not made my humans.
What are physical characteristics?
These 3 HUMAN characteristics are built around the physical characteristic OCEAN.
What are Beach Resorts, amusement parks, and lighthouses?
Type of map used to show how many people live in a certain area.
What is a POPULATION DENSITY map?
These imaginary lines are like the sides to a ladder and help us to find places on earth; they are LONG.
What are lines of longitude?
Region that is often called "New England", it has states such as New York, Maine, and Massachusetts.
What is the NORTHEAST REGION?
What are The Great Lakes?
A human characteristic created or built by a snowy mountain.
What is a PHYSICAL map?