Vocab
Continents
Hemisphere
Map Skills
Latitude and Longitude
100
North, South, East, West
What is Cardinal Directions
100
The continent that the US is part of?
What is North America
100
What line divides the globe into the “Great Circle” creating the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
What is the equator
100
The exact location of a place on the earth is called?
What is absolute location
100
Latitude lines go/run in what directions
What is east to west
200
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest
What is Intermediate Directions
200
Name the continent that is located directly south of North America
What is South America
200
What is the line that divides that eastern and western hemispheres?
What is the prime meridian
200
Label the Compass Rose
See board for answer
200
Latitude lines measure in what directions
What is north and south
300
Tells the distances covered on the map
What is Map Scale
300
Give the name of the Continent? that contains the countries of China and India
What is Asia
300
What 2 hemispheres is the United States Located in?
What is Northern and Western
300
What is the latitude line furthest to the north called and what is the measurement?
What is the North Pole 90 degrees North
300
What is the latitude and longitude of New Orleans Louisiana? Use page 727 in text.
What is approximately 30 N, 90 W
400
Identifies the symbols used on the map
What is Map Legend/Key
400
Name the continents that the Prime Meridian runs through
What is Europe, Africa, and Antarctica
400
Name the hemispheres that Australia is located in
What is Southern and Eastern
400
How would you properly read the coordinates of?Columbus Ohio?? 39°59′00″N 82°59′00″W
What is 39 degrees, 59 minutes, 0 second North and 82 degrees, 59 minutes, 0 seconds W
400
What is the city located at approximately 35 degrees north and 139 degrees East? Use atlas.
What is Tokyo Japan
500
Describes what is on the map or what the map is about
What is the map title
500
Name the continents that includes the countries of Ghana, Egypt, and Ethiopia
What is Africa
500
Name the hemispheres that include Africa
What is Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western
500
Given the map scale that 1 inch = 10 miles?How many miles in real life would 4.5 inches on a map equal?
What is 45 miles
500
What is the name of the city located at 51 degrees north and 0 degrees that is site for the basis of longitude and the setting for standard time.
What is Greenwich, England
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