Relative Location
Absolute Location
Distance on a Map
Types of Maps
Continents and Oceans
100
This symbol on a map shows which direction is north.
What is the compass rose?
100
This line separates the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
This symbol on a map tells you how far one point is from another.
What is the map scale?
100
The type of map shown above.
What is a physical map?
100
This continent is marked with the letter B.
What is South America?
200
The Blue Ridge Mountains are in this part of Georgia.
What is the North?
200
Called "parallels" these lines never intersect and they measure the degrees North and South.
What are lines of latitude?
200
This is the distance between Berlin and Rome in miles
What is 750 miles?
200
The type of map which shows country boundaries and cities.
What is a political map?
200
This ocean is marked with the number 2
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This state is to the west of Georgia.
What is Alabama?
300
This is how the absolute location of a city is given.
What is by lines of latitude and longitude?
300
This is the distance between Berlin and Rome in kilometers.
What is 1,000 km?
300
This map shows how many people live per square mile.
What is a population density map?
300
This continent is marked with the letter C.
What is Europe?
400
To travel from Atlanta to Savannah you must go in this direction.
What is Southeast?
400
This city can be found at (34*S, 151*E)
What is Sydney?
400
This is the city that is farthest from Paris.
What is Rome?
400
This map shows what the weather is like in a particular region.
What is a climate map?
400
This continent is marked with the letter F.
What is Australia?
500
When giving the relative location of a place you are giving its location in relation to
What is "another place"?
500
This is the absolute location of Alice Springs
What is (24*S, 133*E)?
500
The two cities which are farthest apart.
What are Madrid and Berlin?
500
The type of map shown above.
What is a culture map?
500
This ocean is marked with the number 4.
What is the Indian Ocean?
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