Maps
Reveals counties, cities, and borders between places.
What is an Political Map?
The study of the distribution and interaction of Earth’s physical and human features.
What is Geography?
These are lines that run parallel to the equator.
What are Lines of Latitude ?
This Ocean borders the east coast of the United States
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A spherical model of the Earth.
What is a globe?
If there are 24 hours in a day, the Earth is divided into this many time zones.
What is 24?
You’d use this type to see mountains, rivers, and deserts.
What is a physical map?
This imaginary line divided the world into Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This is where lines of longitude and latitude meet.
What are coordinates?
This Ocean borders the west coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This part of a map represents distance.
What is a scale?
The four times zones are in the U.S.
An Ocean, an Elevation, Ours, Direction
What are Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern?
This map that uses colors and symbols to show the weather in different areas.
What is a Climate Map?
This imaginary line divides the world into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Longitude and Latitude are measured in this and is abbreviated into a circle by the number.
What are degrees?
The United States is a part of this hemisphere.
What is the Northern Hemisphere? Also acceptable, What is the Western Hemisphere?
These make up the 4 cardinal directions.
What is north, east, south, and west?
If you are currently in New York, it would be this number of hours behind in California.
What is 3?
You’d use this one to find directions or plan a trip on roads and highways.
What is a Road Map?
The height above sea level
What is elevation?
These are lines that run parallel to the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
This continent is also known as Oceania.
What is Australia?
The directions in-between the cardinal directions.
What are intermediate directions?
Also acceptable: NE, SE, NW, SW
It is 8:00 Am in Orlando, FL right now...the time in Kansas
What is 7:00 AM?
This one uses symbols and lines to show how high or low the land is.
What is a topographic map?
A person who makes maps.
What is a Cartographer?
This is the part of the map that shows you the directions
What is a Compass Rose?
This is the number of continents in the world.
What is 7?
Half of the Earth.
What is a hemisphere?
This is an imaginary line located in the Pacific Ocean, roughly opposite the Prime Meridian.
What is the International Date Line (IDL)?