Question | Answer |
Map | a visual representation of a particular area |
limitations to using maps | they cannot accurately represent a sphere on a flat surface without distorting the distance, size, direction and shape of water and land forms |
climate map | displays weather and typical climactic conditions of the region |
conformal map | present land masses and the retention of popular shapes, but they are often distorted |
equal area map | shows land areas with relatively popular sizes; however, distortion can occur |
factbook maps | examines the actual facts of events or activities in certain regions of specific places example: life expectancy rates, energy consumption |
historical map | illustrates the people of that area and population example trade routes, religion |
mental map | a sketch in a person's mind in this constructed mentally without any particular references; demonstrates what a person knows about locations and characteristics of places |
physical map | reveals that features of actual geographical surfaces, like mountains or rivers, in the underlying geological structures, such as rocks or fault lines |
outline map | shows some geographic features but does not include others |
political map | demonstrates government boundaries and territorial borders for major countries, states, territories, provinces and so on |
topographical map | exhibit a three-dimensional variation in the topography of land and water areas |
thematic map | demonstrates the location of specific ideas or distributions example: population of children, languages of the world, and times zones |
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia | the seven continents in order by size |
Pacific Atlantic Arctic Indian and Southern oceans | the five major oceans in order by size |
Bays | San Francisco Bay United States
bay of pigs Cuba
Hudson Bay Canada
Bay of Banderas Mexico
Chesapeake Bay United States
Bay of Bengal India |
Capes | Cape of good Hope
Cape Cod
Cape Morris jessu |
canals | Panama Canal central America
Suez Canal
grand Canal of China |
canyons | Grand Canyon Arizona
Waimea Canyon Kauai
Chaco Canyon New Mexico
Bryce Canyon Utah
Zion Canyon Utah
Copper Canyon Mexico
Hells Canyon Idaho |
canyons | Canyon de Chelley Arizona
Yarlung Tsangpo China
Cotahuasi Africa
Black Canyon Colorado
cheddar George England |
gulfs | Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia and Iran
Arabian golf
golf of California United States
golf of Mexico United States and Mexico
Gulf of Aden between Red Sea and Arabian Sea |
islands | Greenland Great Britain New Zealand Aleutian Islands Alaska Hawaiian islands Philippine islands 7100 islands Venice Italy built on 118 islands Caribbean islands Falkland Islands British islands Japan Azores |
lakes | great salt lake Utah
the Great Lakes United States
Caspian Sea Iran
Victoria Lake Africa
Tangan Yika East Africa |
mountain ranges | Kangchenjunga, Rockies, Alps, Mount Everest,Sierra Nevada, Appalachian, K-two, Mount McKinley, Matterhorn, Mount Cook, Kilimanjaro, Cascades Mt. Rainier |
peninsulas | Florida, Italy, Panama, Baja |
Seas | Arabian Sea, Black Sea, coral see, Greenland Sea, Red Sea, Sea of Japan, Tasman Sea |
waterfalls | Niagara Falls United States and Canada, Angel falls Venezuela, bearing false Australia, Victorian balls Africa, Yosemite Falls United States |
anthropologist | a person who studies the history of people such as culture and language example: bones |
cartographer | a person who studies the science or practice of map drawing |
geographer | a person who studies land formations and the earth's composition |
meteorologist | a person who studies climates and the effects on the earth |
sociologist | person who studies the behaviors of people and how they impact the world |
typographer | a person who designs described and developed maps |
regions | cultural groupings not dependent upon government or political rule, formed by a common history and geography as well as she by economics literature and folklore. |
New England region | Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont |
mid Atlantic region | Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania |
the South region | Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia |
the Midwest region | Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, |
the Southwest region | Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, |
the Western region | Alaska, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, or gone, Utah, Washington, Wyoming |
Archipelago | a chain or group of islands in a sea or ocean |
atoll | a ring or partial ring of coral that forms an island in the sea or ocean |
bluff | a cliff |
Butte | high isolated black rock or he'll with steep sides formed by the impact of tectonic plates |
Canyon | deep valley curbed by a river with very steep sides includes a deep gorge with a running stream or river |
cape | a narrow pointed piece of land that juts out from a coastline into a body of water |
Cave | a large hole or hollow in the ground or side Of a mountain |
cliff | A steep face of rock and soil |
cavern | a cave especially large and dark |
col | a mountain pass; a depression in the Summit line of a chain of mountains |
Continent | a large mass of land, of which there are seven that covers a specific area of the Earth's surface |
Delta | silt, sand, and rock which is low watery land formed at the mouth of a river and often shaped like a triangle |
desert | a watery dry bearing area with little to no rainfall, mostly sand covered |
dunes | a hill or ridge made of sand and shaped by wind |
Equator | an imaginary circle around the Earth halfway between the poles that divided North and South Hemisphere |
hill | a raised area or mound of land smaller than a mountain |
Island | a small area of land surrounded on all sides by water |