Continents
This continent is directly below North America.
This ocean is the largest and the closest ocean to us!
Pacific Ocean
What is the degree direction of latitude lines?
North and South
What are the 4 cardinal directions?
North, South, West, and East
What object on a map "unlocks" the meaning of symbols on a map?
Map Key or Map Legend
This is the largest continent.
Asia
This ocean is near Antarctica.
Southern Ocean
What latitude line is at 0 degrees?
equator
What are the 4 intermediate directions?
NW, NE, SW, SE
What do you use on a map to find out the distance from one place to another?
Scale
This continent is a cold desert.
Antarctica
This ocean is near the North Pole.
Arctic Ocean
What longitude line is at 0 degrees?
Prime Meridian
What is the object called that shows directions on a map?
Compass Rose
What is a 2 dimensional representation of Earth called?
a map
This continent is the only one that doesn't have a desert.
Europe
This ocean is off of the eastern coast of North America.
Atlantic Ocean
What do the latitude lines help us understand?
temperature
The equator splits the globe into which 2 hemispheres?
Northern and Southern
True or False?
Latitude and longitude lines are imaginary.
True
This continent is the continent in which we live.
North America
This ocean is in between Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Indian Ocean
What do longitude lines help us understand?
Time zones
The Prime Meridian splits the globe into which two hemispheres?
Western & Eastern
What is a 3 dimensional model of Earth called?
A globe