The Continent that we live on
North America
What shape is the earth?
a sphere
What is a hemisphere?
half a sphere
The state that I live in
Colorado
What is an ocean?
a large body of water
What do we call a mapmaker?
A cartographer
What is a compass rose?
a small drawing on a map that shows direction
The number of oceans on earth
5
The Intermediate directions are?
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
These are cardinal directions
North
South
East
West
The Northern most point on the globe is called this
North Pole
What is the capital of the United States?
Washington, DC
The number of continents
7
Line that splits the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Equator
Invisible Line that splits the globe into eastern and western hemispheres
Prime Meridian
The country that I live in
The United States
The Study of the world around us and its people is called:
Geography
What is the capital of Michigan?
Lansing
Name the 4 Key features every map needs
1) Title
2) Key/legend
3) Scale
4) Compass Rose
Name the 5 major oceans
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean
Arctic Ocean
A continent is:
A large mass of land
Symbols
What is a key/legend?
something that tells what each symbol on the map stands for
An exact location on Earth is called
Absolute Location
List the continents
North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Australia
Antarctica
These lines run from west to east and are parallel to the equator
lines of latitude
This imaginary line is located a 0 degrees and runs East/West
The Equator
This runs North/South and is 0 degrees
What is Prime Meridian
These lines run north to south and measure the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
lines of longitude
A location that is based on things it is near is called...
A relative location
What kind of map grid does the image show?
Coordinate grid
40 degrees North and 60 degrees West are absolute directions, and can be found in what hemisphere?
The NW hemisphere
Name the 5 oceans
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic
The part of a map that helps compare real distances to other distances on a map is called....
A map scale
The patterns of horizontal and vertical lines that crisscross are called...
Latitude and Longitude
Landforms such as mountains, river, plains, deserts, etc. are known as....
physical features