Monday
What does the title tell you about the map?
What is a political map
Which directions are on the compass rose?
What are cardinal and intermediate -
North, South, East, West
NW, NE,SW,SE
What kinds of things are shown on the legend?
What are international borders, national capital, and state borders?
What are the three smaller maps called?
What are inset maps?
Why do Alaska and Hawaii have to be shown on inset maps?
What is they are not connected to the rest of the country?
Name the four parts shown on the map.
compass rose, inset map, legend, title
In which direction is Maine from Texas?
What is northeast?
What is the symbol for an international border?
What is a dark heavy line?
What do each of the inset maps show?
What are Alaska, Hawaii, and North America with the US highlighted?
Alaska is the largest state in area. It is more than twice the size of Texas. Which inset map shows Alaska's size more accurately?
What is North America inset?
What are the points called that are on each end of the prime meridian?
North Pole and South Pole
In what direction is Texas from Maine?
What is southwest?
What countries border the United States?
What are Canada and Mexico?
What is the location of the US in relation to North America, especially the location of Alaska?
What is the reason for the inset map of North America being included?
Is the United States located in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
What is the name of the imaginary line on which the Earth rotates?
What is the axis.
What is the name of the imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth?
What is the equator?
What is 0 degrees longitude?
What is the prime meridian?
About how many kilometers is the distance around Earth at the equator?
What is 40,000 kilometers?
Is the continent of Asia in the Eastern or Western Hemisphere?
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
How many times does the Earth rotate every 24 hours?
What is once.
The equator divides the Earth into which two hemispheres?
What are Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Which two hemispheres does the prime meridian divide the Earth into?
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
The area around the equator is usually hot. What do you think happens to the temperatures at the poles?
What it gets very cold?
Which hemispheres are the United States located in?
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?