Maps & Geography
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This line divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
The largest continent in the world is ___.
What is Asia?
Which ocean is west of California
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What are the three largest countries that make up most of the continent of North America?
Canada, the United States, and Mexico
In Save Me a Seat, Joe struggles with this learning difference.
What is an auditory processing disorder?
The symbol that shows direction on a map is called this.
What is a compass rose?
If you are facing east, what direction is to your left?
What is north?
Which type of map is the most accurate representation of Earth?
What is a globe?
If you travel from the South Pole toward Australia, which direction are you traveling?
North
True or False: Ravi and Joe’s fifth-grade teacher is Mr. Barnes
False
Which two continents are completely in the Southern Hemisphere?
What is Australia and Antarctica?
This tells you what the symbols and colors on a map mean.
What is a map key?
Which continent is in all four hemispheres?
What is Africa?
What are Equidistant Projection maps centered on?
The North Pole or South Pole
What genre is Save Me a Seat
Realistic Fiction
The Prime Meridian separates these two hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
On a map, this shows the relationship between distance on the map and distance in the real world.
What is the map scale?
This is the name for a person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
What are the three types of world map projections we learned about?
Mercator, Robinson, and Interrupted projections
What are the names of Ravi's grandparents?
Perippa and Perimma
List all 7 continents and the 5 major oceans, and be able to correctly spell each one.
Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
Oceans: Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean
This German cartographer created the world map we studied earlier this week in class.
Who was Henricus Martellus Germanus?
In what year was the map we studied earlier this week made?
What is 1491.
What are the four special lines of latitude?
Arctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, and Antarctic Circle
What is the definition of a theme?
The message, moral, or lesson of a story that can relate to your life.