North America: geography/culture

The first two things you do when you receive a map are to make sure that north points away from you and ________.

• the map is no more than 5 years old

• the scale bar has the correct distances

• you have a political map to read

• you can read the title

Knowing the latitude of a location would be most helpful in determining

• time

• temperature

• population

• language

Using one location to find another is called ________.

• relative location

• dead reckoning

• absolute location

• geographic reckoning

The two types of physical features are landforms and _______.

• colonies

• bodies of water

• international boundaries

• borders

The three types of maps are called Political, Physical, and ______.

• Arbitrary

• Thematic

• Topical

• Seismographic

A map key (legend) explains what all the symbols and ________ mean.

• borders

• lines

• colors

• arrows

A physical (relief) map is mainly used to show _______.

• elevation

• distances

• boundaries and borders

• landforms

The breaking down of natural material such as rock is called ______.

• an earthquake

• weathering

• erosion

• deposition

The State of Florida is located on a(n) ________.

• island

• strait

• isthmus

• peninsula

Weathering means breaking up material in nature, while _______ means moving the material away.

• population

• deposition

• decomposition

• erosion