Vocabulary
One of Earth's 4 largest bodies of salt water.
What is an ocean?
Shows you what the symbols represent on a map.
What is a map key or legend?
A map that shows you states, countries, or cities.
What is a political map?
Lines that run North and South.
What 3 continents does the equator pass through?
What is South America, Africa, and Asia?
A small drawing on a map that shows directions.
What is a compass rose?
A 3-D representation of Earth.
A map that shows you landforms such as mountains, hills, rivers, plains, oceans, or lakes.
What is a physical map?
Lines that run East and West.
What are lines of latitude?
Find Chicago on the map. What are the lines of latitude and longitude?
What is 42 degrees North, 87 degrees West?
Means half.
What does hemi mean?
Anything that stand for something.
What is a symbol?
A map that shows you how you can travel from one place to another.
What is a transportation map?
The imaginary line that divides the globe into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
A continent in all four hemisphers is _____?
What is Africa?
One of Earth's 7 large bodies of land. What are their names?
What is a continent? North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antartica
The relationship between the distance on a map and the real distance on Earth.
What is a map scale?
A map that shows information about past events.
What is a historical map?
The imaginary line that divides the globe into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A mapmaker is called....
What is a cartographer?
Half a sphere: there are four of these. Can you name them?
What does hemisphere mean? Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western
Directions between the cardinal directions. Tell me what they are.
What are intermediate directions? Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest.
A small map that is set onto another map that shows you wher ethe main map is set.
What is a map locator?
What two hemisphere do we live in?
Where the Equator and Prime Meridian intersect
What is the Gulf of Guinea? (0 degrees)