Unit 2 Vocab & Map Skills

What is an aquifer?

• The part of the land near the sea; the edge of the land.

• Places characterized by their physical and human properties. 

  Examples of physical characteristics include landforms, climate, soils, etc.

  
  

• A period of time marked by distinctive  (unique) characters or events.

• A body of permeable rock (rock that water passes through) which can contain or transmit groundwater.

What is the coast?

• A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.

• A period of time marked by distinctive  (unique) characters or events.

• The part of the land near the sea; the edge of the land.

• Places characterized by their physical and human properties. 

  Examples of physical characteristics include landforms, climate, soils, etc.

  
  

What tells you what the map could be about?

• Compass Rose

• Title

• Map Scale

• Map Key/Legen

What does the term era mean?

• A period of time marked by distinctive  (unique) characters or events.

• A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.

• The part of the land near the sea; the edge of the land.

• Places characterized by their physical and human properties. 

  Examples of physical characteristics include landforms, climate, soils, etc.

  
  

A compass rose will show

• what the map is about

• The distance from one point to another

• direction

• What a symbol mean

Water that is found below Earth surface such as the aquifer is called

• surface water

• water table

• groundwater

• river basin

What measures distance on a map?

• Compass Rose

• Title

• Map Scale

• Map Legend/Key

What is a nomad?

• The part of the land near the sea; the edge of the land.

• A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.

• A member of a people having no permanent abode/home, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.

  
  

• A period of time marked by distinctive  (unique) characters or events.

Map Key/Legend

• A period of time marked by distinctive  (unique) characters or events

• A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it

• Tells what the map is about.

• Explains what the symbols mean