Map Skills
Globe Skills
Globe & Continent
Latitude and Longitude
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?
100

This line measures 0 degrees latitude.

What is the equator?

200

This shows how the distance on the map is related to the distance in reality. 

What is a map scale?

200

This is the ocean that surrounds Antarctica.

What is the Southern Ocean?
200
This is the invisible line that divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
200

This line measures 0 degrees longitude.

What is the Prime Meridian?

300
These are known as north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
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?
300

This is one of the effects of being close to the equator.

What is a hot climate?

400
These are pictures, lines, or dots that stand for something on the map.
What are symbols?
400
This is what surrounds the North Pole.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
400

This the land that is what surrounds the South Pole.

What is Antarctica?

400

Complete this sentence.  The further from the equator the _________________ the climate.

colder/cooler

500
These are known as northeast, southeast, northwest, and southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
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?
500

The coordinates of Mexico City are______________.

Use the map on page 21 of your reader.

What is 20* N, 100*W

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