Map Skills/Geography II

What are the largest areas of land on Earth called?

• mountain

• plain

• continent

• country

Which type of map shows the borders between countries?

• physical

• political

• population

• elevation

North, South, East, and West are which kind of directions?

• Intermediate

• Normal

• Cardinal

• Basic

What is another name for a map key?

• graph

• ruler

• legend

• scale

What kind of line is the equator?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Straight

• Hot

Which direction do lines of longitude run?

• North to South

• East to West

• Left to Right

• Around and Around

Which line is just slightly north of the equator?

• Prime Meridian

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Cancer

• North Pole

What is this called?

• scale

• compass rose

• title

• country

What tool would you use to measure the distance between two places on a map?

• key

• legend

• scale

• grid

Tags

CCSS.7.G.A.1

N, E, S, W are called...

• blue directions

• cardinal directions

• intermediate directions

• straight and forward