Map Parts
Map Lines
Continents and Oceans
Directions
100
A small picture, color, or pattern that represents something on a map.
What is a symbol?
100
The line that goes all the way around the middle of the Earth and divides it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
100
The ocean located to the west of California.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
A saying that people use to remember the directions or the order of the compass rose.
What is "Never Eat Soggy Wheat (or Waffles)."
200
A number line on a map that allows the map to fit on one page, and tells us how far distances are in real life.
What is a scale?
200
Parallel lines on a map that run horizontal and are labeled as North and South.
What are lines of latitude.
200
The continent that we live on that is just North of South America.
What is North America?
200
The direction on a compass rose that is between East and North.
What is NorthEast?
300
A symbol on a map that shows us the directions.
What is a compass rose?
300
Lines on a map that run vertically and are labeled as East and West.
What are lines of longitude?
300
The small continent that is connected to Asia.
What is Europe?
300
The direction that is between West and South on a compass rose.
What is SouthWest?
400
The part of a map that tells us what the map is of.
What is a title?
400
The zero degree line of longitude that has a special name.
What is the prime meridian?
400
The ocean located to the East of North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
If I were in Kansas, which in North America, which direction would I go if I were to travel to Antarctica?
What is South?
500
A box of symbols that explains what each symbol means or represents.
What is a legend?
500
The pattern of lines on a map that helps us to find a location or give directions.
What is a grid?
500

The ocean around the North Pole.

What is the Arctic Ocean?

500
If I were in Asia and I was going to travel to Europe, which direction would I go?
What is West?
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