Map Skills
This tool on a map shows which direction is north.
What is a compass rose?
A landform completely surrounded by water is called this.
What is an island?
This is the largest continent on Earth.
What is Asia?
This is the capital city of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This term describes the movement of people from one place to live in another.
What is migration?
This part of a map explains what the symbols mean.
What is a legend (or key)?
This is the term for a large, flat area of raised land.
What is a plateau?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This is the largest state in Australia by land area.
What is Western Australia?
This term describes an environment that has been changed or shaped by human activity, like a city or farm.
What is a built environment?
These lines on a map connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
This narrow strip of land connects two larger landmasses and has water on either side.
What is an isthmus?
his mountain, located in the Himalayas, is the tallest in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
This sandstone rock formation in the Northern Territory is sacred to the Anangu people.
What is Uluru?
This term measures how many people live within a certain area, usually per square kilometre.
What is population density?
These imaginary horizontal lines run parallel to the Equator and are used to measure position north or south.
What is latitude?
This landform is a piece of land almost surrounded by water but connected to the mainland.
What is a peninsula?
This is the largest hot desert in the world, located in northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is the longest river system in Australia, formed by two major rivers joining together.
What is the Murray-Darling River system?
This process describes the growth of cities as more people move from rural areas to urban areas.
What is urbanisation?
This term describes the relationship between distance on a map and actual distance on the ground.
What is scale?
This is the name for a fan-shaped landform that forms where a river deposits sediment as it meets the sea.
What is a delta?
This imaginary line, tilted at 23.5 degrees, is the main reason Earth experiences seasons.
What is the Earth's axis (of tilt)?
This coral reef system off the coast of Queensland is the largest living structure on Earth, visible from space.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This term describes the increasing connection and interdependence of countries through trade, culture, and technology.
What is globalisation?