A home geography of New York city . from thewest there is a stream of water known as tlie Kill van Kull;it connects upper New York Imy with Newark bay. Bodies ofwater that connect two larger bodies of water are called straits,sounds, channels, or kills. See how many of these you can Lake CHAPTER III A PHYSICAL MAP Here is another map. Point out the north, east, south, and west. Point out the land,the ocean. Pam your finger along the coast line. Point out the bays,the peninsulas, the straits, the islands, the capes, and the what each one is. Name a bay, a strait, a peninsula


A home geography of New York city . from thewest there is a stream of water known as tlie Kill van Kull;it connects upper New York Imy with Newark bay. Bodies ofwater that connect two larger bodies of water are called straits,sounds, channels, or kills. See how many of these you can Lake CHAPTER III A PHYSICAL MAP Here is another map. Point out the north, east, south, and west. Point out the land,the ocean. Pam your finger along the coast line. Point out the bays,the peninsulas, the straits, the islands, the capes, and the what each one is. Name a bay, a strait, a peninsula, a capeor point, and an island in the vicinity of New York. Maps are usually made on flat surfaces. They do not help us topicture to ourselves highlands and lowlands. We have, however, anumber of ways of indicating high and low land on a map. Youlearned one way when studying the relief map. This map shows asecond way of indicating high and low land. 20 A PHYSICAL MAP 21 You notice that there are various colors and shades of colorsin your map. All these have a meaning. They tell a story. Allma]3s do not have these colors, nor do all maps show height bymeans of colors. I will tell you, therefore, what the colors on thismap mean. As a rule, you will find an explanation of the mean-in


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