Map Skills
Map Skills Cont.
Globe Skills
Globe & Continent
100
This tells you what the map is about.
What is the title?
100

This is what you look at to find out what the symbols on a map stand for.

What is a map key or legend?

100
These are known as the seven sections of land on the globe.
What are the continents?
100
This is known as the top half of the globe.
What is the northern hemisphere?
200

This allows the map maker to shrink a larger area onto a smaller area.

What is a scale?

200
These are known as northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
200

This is the amount of water that covers the Earth.

What is 75% or 3/4?

200
This is the invisible line that divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
300
These are known as north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
300

This helps map readers locate things using numbers and letters.

What is a grid?

300
These are known as the top and bottom points on the globe.
What are the North and South Pole?
300
This is the invisible line that divides the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres?
What is the Prime Meridian?
400
These are pictures, lines, or dots that stand for something on the map.
What are symbols?
400

This symbol is used to stand for capitals.

What is a star?

400
This is what surrounds the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
400
This is what surrounds the South Pole.
What is Antarctica?
500

This type of map shows products that can be mined, grown, or raised in that area.

What is a resource map?

500

This type of map shows natural features of an area.

What is a physical map?

500
These are the five oceans that are located on the globe.
What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans?
500
These are the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica?
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