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

Lines of Longitude run in this direction

What is north to south?
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

How many hemispheres are there?

What is 4?

200

Ocean that surrounds Antarctica

What is southern ocean?

200

Lines of latitude are also called this

What is parallels?

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

This helps map readers locate things using degrees

What is a latitude and longitude.

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

Lines of Longitude are also called this

What are meridians?
400
These are pictures, lines, or dots that stand for something on the map.
What are symbols?
400

Triangles on a map usually represent 

What is a mountain


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

You will need to cross this ocean to get to Australia


What is the Pacific ocean

400

This is the invisible line that divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres.

What is the Equator?

500

This type of map shows states, countries, boarders etc, 

What is a political 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?
500

Lines of Latitude run in this direction


What is east to west

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