Map Skills 1
A tool on a map that shows cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
Name the five oceans?
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic, and Southern?
The term for a set of numbers that pinpoint an exact location on Earth.
What are coordinate points?
The names of all the continents.
What is North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
The 0 degree line running north to south.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The ocean located at the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The largest continent in the world.
What is Asia?
The Indian Ocean is located mostly in these hemispheres?
What is Southern and Eastern Hemispheres?
This feature helps you determine the actual distance between places on a map.
What is the scale?
The tool on the map that shows cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
The directions directly between north and west.
What is northwest?
The continent that contains no countries.
What is Antarctica?
This feature explains what the symbols or colors on a map represent.
What is a map key or legend.
List the intermediate directions.
What is northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest?
The hemispheres the United States is located.
Where is the northern and western hemisphere?
This place is a continent and a country?
What is Australia?
The 0 degree imaginary line divides the world into the southern and northern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
the name of imaginary lines that run horizontally around the globe from west to east
What are lines of latitude?
The term used to describes HALF of the Earth.
What is hemi?
The countries located in North America.
What is Canada, USA, and Canada?