Direction
Maps
Environment
Places
100
North, south, east, and west
What are the carinal directions?
100
A symbol on a map or chart to show direction.
What is a compass rose?
100
A land surrounded by water, smaller than a continent.
What is a island?
100
An imaginary line drawn north and south through the Pacific ocean on a map largely along 180 degrees meridian.
What is the international dateline?
200
Northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest.
What are the intermediate directions?
200
West of prim meridian.
What is the western hemisphere?
200
Changes in temp. and precipitation over a short period of time.
What is weather?
300
Parallel lines.
What is latitude?
300
East of prim meridian.
What is the eastern hemisphere.
300
Land surrounded by water on all sides but one.
What is a peninsula?
400
A line of longitude.
What is a meridian?
400
A map that shows the features of Earth's surface.
What is a physical map?
400
Sandy reefs which surround shallow lagoons.
What is a coral reef?
500
A meridian in a geographical coordinate system.
What is the prim meridian?
500
A map that shows the boundaries of countries.
What is a political map?
500
The process of grasslands turning to desserts.
What is desertification?
M
e
n
u