Directions
North, South, East, West
What are the four cardinal directions?
This is usually shown by a blue line on a map.
What is a river?
This is the most famous line of latitude.
These lines, also called lines of longitude, run north to south on the map.
What are meridians?
The earth is divided into this many hemispheres.
What is four?
Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast
What are the four intermediate directions?
Mountains are represented by this on a map.
What is a triangle?
As you get further away from the equator, the number of degrees of latitude gets (higher or lower)
What is higher?
This is the most famous meridian.
What is the Prime Meridian?
What is northern and western?
This is the direction to your left if you are facing north.
What is west?
A star is shown on the map to represent this.
What is a state capital?
This is the highest number of degrees a location can be in regards to latitude.
What is 90?
Why is the Prime Meridian sometimes called the Greenwich Meridian?
What is the Prime Meridian goes through Greenwich, England?
The North Pole is located in which hemisphere?
What is the northern?
A tool used by sailors long ago and hikers today that can be used to find directions. This tool is used by the pull of the magnetic poles.
What is a compass?
A city on the map is represented by this.
What is a circle or dot.
These lines, also called lines of latitude, run east to west on a map.
What are parallels?
The Prime Meridian splits the earth into which two hemispheres?
What is eastern and western?
The South Pole is located in which hemisphere?
What is southern?
This direction is the opposite of south.
What is north?
On a road map, these represent roads.
What are lines?
The equator is located at how many degrees latitude?
What is 0?
This is the number of degrees the earth is divided into with longitude.
What is 360?
A person who studies or makes maps is called this.
What is a cartographer?