TOADSS
Latitude/Longitude
Earth and Sun
Hemispheres
Map Terms
100

The part of the map that tells what the map is about.

Title

100

This line is zero degrees latitude.

Equator

100

The main reason that we have changing seasons throughout the year.

The tilt of Earth as it rotates around the sun

100

This line divides earth into western and eastern hemispheres.

Prime Meridian

100

Where a place is compared to another place.

Relative location

200

The part of a map that tells direction.

Compass Rose (Orientation)

200

This line is zero degrees longitude.

Prime Meridian

200
True or false--North America and Europe always have the same seasons.

True

200

The line that divides earth into northern and southern hemispheres.

Equator

200

Geographers use this to indicate the absolute location of any place on earth.

Global grid

300

The part of the map that tells when it was made.

Date

300

An imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole.

Meridian of longitude

300

When spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.

Fall

300

These two continents are completely in the Southern Hemisphere.

Australia and Antarctica

300

The change in size, shape, and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat surface.

Distortion

400
The part of the map that explains pictures and colors on a map.

Symbols in a key or legend

400

An imaginary line that circles the earth from west to east.

Parallel of latitude

400
When the sun shines straight down on the Tropic of Cancer, it is this season in the Northern Hemisphere.

Summer

400

These two continents are entirely in the Western Hemisphere.

North America and South America

400

The percentage of earth covered by water.

70%

500

The part of the map that shows how distance on a map compares to real distance.

Scale

500

The latitude and longitude of the North Pole.

90˚N, 0˚

500

These two lines mark the northernmost and southernmost points where the sun's rays always beat straight down.

Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

500

This continent has land in all four hemispheres.

Africa

500

Address and latitude/longitude are both examples of this term.

Absolute location

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