TOADSS
The part of the map that tells what the map is about.
Title
This line is zero degrees latitude.
Equator
The main reason that we have changing seasons throughout the year.
The tilt of Earth as it rotates around the sun
This line divides earth into western and eastern hemispheres.
Prime Meridian
Where a place is compared to another place.
Relative location
The part of a map that tells direction.
Compass Rose (Orientation)
This line is zero degrees longitude.
Prime Meridian
True
The line that divides earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
Equator
Geographers use this to indicate the absolute location of any place on earth.
Global grid
The part of the map that tells when it was made.
Date
An imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole.
Meridian of longitude
When spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
Fall
These two continents are completely in the Southern Hemisphere.
Australia and Antarctica
The change in size, shape, and position of features that occur when representing the Earth on a flat surface.
Distortion
Symbols in a key or legend
An imaginary line that circles the earth from west to east.
Parallel of latitude
Summer
These two continents are entirely in the Western Hemisphere.
North America and South America
The percentage of earth covered by water.
70%
The part of the map that shows how distance on a map compares to real distance.
Scale
The latitude and longitude of the North Pole.
90˚N, 0˚
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
This continent has land in all four hemispheres.
Africa
Address and latitude/longitude are both examples of this term.
Absolute location