Map Skills
Map Skills Cont.
Globe Skills
Globe & Continent
Continents
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?
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 is known as the largest continent and where the world's tallest mountain is found.
What is Asia?
200
This is used to tell you the distance from one place to another.
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?
200
Mexico, the United States of America, and Canada are some of the countries that make up the continent that you live on.
What is North America?
300
These are known as north, south, east, and west.
What are cardinal directions?
300
This is a smaller, more detailed part of a map that belongs to a larger part.
What is an inset?
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 the 4th largest continent that gets more than 22 ft. of rain in a year.
What is South America?
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 state 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?
400
This is the second smallest continent, and it is made up of the countries Greece, France, Italy, and Spain to name a few.
What is Europe?
500
These are the lines that run from east to west on a map or globe that are located at different degrees.
What are lines of latitude?
500
These are the lines that run north to south on a map or globe that are located at different degrees.
What are lines of longitude?
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
This is what the native people of Australia are called.
What are Aborigines?
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