5th Grade Social Studies Vocab

What shows cardinal directions and sometimes intermediate directions?

• cardinal directions

• compass rose

• intermediate directions

• scale

What are the 4 cardinal directions?

• North, South, East, West

• Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest

• North, Northeast, Northwest, South

• South, Southeast, Southwest, North

What are the intermediate directions?

• North, South, East, West

• Eastnorth, Eastsouth, Westnorth, Westsouth

• East, Northeast, West, Northwest

• Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest

What is the part of the map that tells what certain symbols or colors represent on a map?

• Physical Map

• Physical Features

• Scale

• Key (or legend)

What is the measurement that shows how much a certain distance represents on a map?

• Key (or legend)

• Compass Rose

• Scale

• Intermediate Directions

Which is a map that shows physical features?

• Thematic Map

• Political Map

• Physical Map

• World Map

Things in the environment that exist naturally (i.e. bodies of water, mountains, landforms, biomes) are...

• Physical Features

• Physical Map

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

Which map shows names of places and things and political (or human made) boundaries?

• Physical Map

• Political Map

• State Map

• Thematic Map

Which map shows a specific thing (or theme)?

• Political Map

• Physical Map

• World Map

• Thematic Map

What are resources that are found in nature that can be used by humans (i.e. water, coal, oil, minerals, trees, animals, soil)?

• Compass Rose

• Thematic Map

• Political Map

• Natural Resources