Earth Vocab
Imaginary Lines
Directions and Maps
Maps
Maps 2
100
The study of Earth and the way people live on it and use it.
What is geography?
100
An imaginary line, or parallel, measuring distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
100
The four main points of the compass.
What are cardinal directions?
100

A guide telling you what each symbol on a map stands for.

What is a map key or legend?

100
A physical map that uses colors to show the elevation of land above sea level.
What is an elevation map?
200
One of Earth's seven large bodies of land.
What is a continent?
200
A line of latitude.
What is a parallel?
200
Directions halfway between two cardinal directions.
What are intermediate directions?
200
A small map inset in the corner of a larger map that helps you understand where the subjeect area is located on Earth.
What is a locator?
200
A map that indicates cities, highways, and points of interest and shows how to get from one place to another.
What is a road map?
300
One of Earth's four large bodies of water
What is an ocean?
300
An imaginary line, or meridian, measuring east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
300
A drawing that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
300
A map that shows the boundaries of states and countries.
What is a political map?
300
A map that shows information about the past or where past events took place.
What is a historical map?
400
One half of a sphere or globe. Earth can be divided into four of these.
What is a hemisphere?
400

Any line of longitude east or west of Earth's prime meridian.

What is a meridian?

400
A guide that explains the relationship between real distances on Earth and distances on a map.
What is a scale?
400
A map that highlights Earth's natural features.
What is a physical map?
400

Another term for this is "a parallel"

What is a latitude?

500
An imaginary line encircling Earth halfway between the North and South Pole.
What is the equator?
500
The line of longitude labeled 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
500
Something that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
500
A physical map that uses shading to show the difference in height between areas of land.
What is a relief map?
500
There are seven of these on Earth.
What is a continent?
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