Directions
North, South East and West are these type of directions.
What are Cardinal directions?
Known as the main line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
A model of the earth.
What is ta globe?
The star stands for this on a map.
What is the capital?
A sphere-shaped model of the world.
What is the globe?
The four intermediate directions.
What are northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest?
These lines run from north to south.
What are lines of longitude? (or meridians)
Term that tells what a map is about.
What is the title?
The type of map you would use to find your route from Madisonville, Kentucky to Florida.
What is an interstate highway map?
Used to determine distance on a map.
What is the map scale?
The symbol on every map that shows directions.
What is the compass rose?
Another name for the Prime Meridian.
What is 0 degrees longitude?
The weather of a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A map that shows landforms and geographical features on the earth's surface.
What is a physical map?
Earth is divided into two half spheres called.
What is a hemisphere?
The equator cuts the globe into these two hemispheres.
What are northern and southern hemispheres?
Parallels is another name for these lines.
What are lines of latitude?
Another term for a map's key.
What is the legend?
A map that shows how humans have divided the earth's surface.
What is a political map?
Half of the earth south of the equator.
What is the southern hemisphere?
The imaginary line that cuts the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Lines used to measure east and west on a map.
What are longitude lines?
The lines on a map represent these.
What are degrees?
The exact spot of a place or feature using degrees of longitude and latitude.
What is absolute location?
Using cardinal and intermediate directions to describe the location of a place in relationship to something else.
What is relative location?