Miscellaneous
A climate map
What is a map that shows the climate of a specific area?
a person who makes maps
What is a cartographer?
a map scale
What shows the relationship between actual distance and the distance on a map?
A map that shows the time zone of an area
What is a time zone map?
Imaginary lines or meridians, that run north and south. Each meridian crosses the north and south poles.
What is longitude
A plain
What is an area of flat land?
A map that shows the landmarks of an area
What is a physical map?
A picture on a map that shows four cardinal directions
What is a compass rose?
A map that shows the religions of an area
What is a religious map?
Imaginary lines that run east and west around the earth and measure distance north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
The kind of weather a place has over time
What is climate?
A place at ninety degrees north latitude
What is the North Pole?
A thing that shows symbols and what they mean on a map
What is a legend or key?
a map that colors, shows the borders and state capitals
What is a political map?
The meridian, 0 degrees longitude that runs through the North and south poles, Greenwich, England
What is the prime meridian?
The line that divides the earth into eastern and Western Hemispheres
What is the prime meridian?
The two continents that are located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere
What are Australia and Antarctica?
A thing that shows the relationship between the distance on a map and the distance in real life
What is a map scale?
a map of the world
What is a world map
Lines that show elavation
What are contour lines?
Celcius
What is the metric unit used when measuring temperature?
The three continents located entirely within the Northern Hemisphere
What are Europe, Asia, and North America?
the lines are longitude and latitude
What are the lines going vertical and horizontal on a map?
a map that shows climate
What is a climate map?
The South Pole is a Pole at the southernmost part of earth
What is the South Pole?