Latitude & Longitude
Parts of a Map
7 Continents
Geographic Regions
Water Features
100
Parallels
What is another name for lines of latitude?
100
Map Title
What is located on the map and gives the name of it?
100
Africa
What is this continent located directly south of Europe and has countries like Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa?
100
Coastal Plain
What is located along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. It is broad lowland providing many excellent harbors.
100
Rio Grande
What is the name of the river that runs along the border between Texas and Mexico?
200
Meridians
What is the name for lines of longitude?
200
Compass Rose
What is the indicator of direction on the map?
200
Antarctica
What is located at the South Pole?
200
Appalachian Mountains
What is located west of Coastal Plain extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama, includes the Piedmont. Is old, eroded mountains (oldest in North America).
200
HOMES
What is the acronym for the Great Lakes?
300
Lines of Latitude
What are the imaginary lines that run east to west and separate the northern and southern hemispheres on a map?
300
North, East, South and West
What are 4 cardinal directions?
300
North America
What is continent that contains the United States, Mexico and Canada?
300
Canadian Shield
What is wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape, has hills worn by erosion and hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers, and holds some of the oldest rock formations in North America?
300
The Columbia River
What is water feature that was explored by Lewis and Clark?
400
Lines of Longitude
What are the imaginary lines that run north to south and separate the western and eastern hemispheres?
400
Scale
What is used to indicate distance and is the best estimator of how far two places are on a map?
400
South America
What is located south of North America, holds countries like Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela?
400
Interior Lowlands
What is located west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Great Plains and has rolling flatlands with many rivers, broad river valleys and grassy hills?
400
The Atlantic Ocean
What is the water feature that served as the highway for explorers, early settlers and later immigrants?
500
Adirondak Mountains
What is the name of the land feature that is located at 44 degrees North and 74 degrees West in the United States?
500
Physical and Political
What are two types of maps? One shows states, capitals and boundaries between areas and the others show an area's geographic features.
500
Asia
What is continent that houses China, Japan and Hong Kong? It is east of Europe and northwest of Australia.
500
Basin and Range
What is located west of Rocky Mountains and east of the Sierra Nevadas and the Cascades and the area of varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley, the lowest point in North America?
500
The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers
What are the water features that served as the transportation arteries for farm and industrial products. They were links to ports and other parts of the world.