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Social Studies 0014
Map Knowledge and Skills
| 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 |
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