vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
longitude/latitude
100
north, south, east, and west
What are Cardinal Directions.
100
Imaginary line that runs east and west around the globe. It is sometimes called a parallel.
What is latitude?
100
Land that doesn't border an ocean.
What is inland?
100
30 N and 90 W
What is New Orleans?
200
northwest, northeast, southwest, southeast
What intermediate directions?
200
An imaginary line that runs around the globe between the North and South Poles; also called a meridian.
What is longitude?
200
A high, flat landform that rises steeply from the land around it.
What is a plateau?
200
34 N and 119 W
What is Santa Barbara?
300
Most maps use this to show directions.
What is a compass rose?
300
This map shows landforms such as mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, and plains.
What is a physical map?
300
A bowl-shaped landform that is lower than the surrounding land.
What is a basin?
300
29 N and 95 W
What is Galveston?
400
A diagram that shows the relationship between distances on a map and real distances.
What is a scale.
400
This map shows cities, capitals, states, and countries.
What is a political map?
400
The grid formed by crisscrossing lines of latitude and longitude on a map.
What is a global grid?
400
40 N and 75 W
What is Camden, NJ?
500
This is an explanation of what the symbols on a map stand for.
What is a map key.
500
Low, flat land that runs along a coast.
What is a coastal plain?
500
Imaginary line that runs through the middle of the earth.
What is the equator? or Prime Meridian?
500
43 N and 95 W
What is Bemidji, MN?
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