Map Elements
Parallels and Meridians
The Four Hemispheres
Picturing North America
Picturing the World
100
They are: compass rose, inset map, legend, scale, and title.
What are map elements?
100
These are also called parallels.
What are lines of latitude?
100
The four hemispheres.
What is Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western?
100
This country is north of the United States.
What is Canada.
100
A description of a place using grid coordinates.
What is absolute location?
200
North, South, East, and West
What are cardinal directions?
200
These are also called meridians.
What are lines of longitude?
200
This continent is south of the equator and west of the prime meridian.
What is Australia?
200
This large isthmus containing seven countries connects Mexico and South America.
What is Central America?
200
A description of a place using the relation of one place to another.
What is relative location?
300
This is a smaller map set within the border of a larger one.
What is an inset map?
300
This line divides the northern and southern hemispheres at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
300
This is the shape of the earth.
What is a sphere?
300
These states are not part of the contiguous United States.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
300
A map that a person pictures in their mind.
What is a mental map.
400
This graphic compares the distance on a map to the actual difference it represents.
What is a scale?
400
These lines meet at the North Pole and South Pole.
What are meridians, or lines of longitude?
400
This continent is north of the equator and west of the prime meridian.
What is North America?
400
These are land and waters controlled by a state, nation, or government.
What is a dependency?
400
The continents.
What are Antarctica, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
500
This type of map shows human-made features and boundaries such as cities, highways, and countries.
What is a political map?
500
This is the unit in which lines of latitude and longitude are measured.
What are degrees?
500
Africa is found primarily on this hemisphere.
What is the eastern hemisphere?
500
This country is ruled by Denmark, but is located in North America.
What is Greenland?
500
The five oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, and Southern.
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