TERMS
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TERMS
100
This latitude line runs O degrees east to west.
What is Equator?
100
The part of the map that tells the topic and date.
What is the title?
100
What two continents are entirely located in the Western Hemisphere?
What are North and South America?
100
The country that is directly south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
100
This is a term means the exact location. A GPS would use this information.
What is absolute location?
200
This longitude meridian runs 0 degrees north to south.
What is prime meridian?
200
The part of the map that tells directions.
What is a compass rose?
200
The United States of America is in this continent.
What is North America?
200
The country that is directly north of the United States.
What is Canada?
200
These are on a legend and they represent items on a map.
What are symbols?
300
Lines that run from north to south
What are longitude lines?
300
This part of the map contains symbols.
What is the legend or key?
300
What do geographers use to indicate the absolute location of any place on Earth?
What is the global grid or lines of longitude and latitude?
300
The state that is directly south of Kentucky?
What is Tennessee?
300
This is another word for "key" on a map.
What is legend?
400
What are lines that run east to west around the earth called?
What lines of latitude?
400
This part of the map tells how distances on a map compare to distances on earth.
What is a map scale?
400
A meridian of longitude is an imaginary line that runs from what two poles?
What are the north and south pole?
400
THe lines that run north to south.
What are longitude lines?
400
This "flower" tells directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
500
This is the zone of land between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, it is always warm here.
What is the tropical zone?
500
This grid contains longitude and latitude lines.
What is the global grid?
500
THis causes the changing seasons throughout the year.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis (toward the sun).
500
The lines that run from east to west on a map.
What are latitude lines?
500
On a map, this scale compares distance on a map to distance on the earth.
What is a map scale?
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