Map Skills
What do you call a round representation of a map?
What is a globe?
The seven largest bodies of land are called
What is continents?
A drawing showing a place from above is called this.
What is a map?
What is the name of the state you live in?
Texas
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
What would you use to figure out direction on a map?
What is the compass rose?
The five large bodies of water are called
What is oceans?
The imaginary line in the middle of the earth (the warmest place on earth)?
Equator
What is the capital of the state you live in?
Austin
Which is the biggest of the 7 continents?
Asia
If I wanted to know exactly where something is on a map what would I use?
What is a grid?
What is the coldest continent
What is Antarctica ?
The name of the imaginary line close to the north and south poles.
Arctic circle
What is the abbreviation for our state?
TX
What do you call a piece of land that has water all around it?
Island
What are three different landforms that can we can see on a map?
What are bay, lake, ocean, river, hill, island, mountain, plain, plateau or valley?
What are the names of four countries in North America?
What are Canada, Mexico and the United States, Greenland
The coldest continent on earth.
What is Antarctica?
How many states are there?
50
What do you call a line that separates two countries or two states?
A border
How can you use a map key to help you read a map?
What is it tells you what all of the symbols on a map represent or mean?
What continent is Japan on?
Asia
What is a border?
What is an imaginary line between to places?
Name a state that borders Texas
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana