Directions
Latitude and
Longitude
Map Features
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

North, South East and West are these type of directions.

What are Cardinal directions?

100

Known as the main line of latitude.

What is the Equator?

100

On a map, this color usually stands for water.

What is blue?

100

A sphere-shaped model of the world.

What is the globe?

100

A grid that covers all of Earth.

What is a global grid?

200

The four intermediate directions.

What are northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest?

200

These lines run from north to south.

What are lines of longitude? (or meridians)

200

Term that tells what a map is about.

What is the title?

200

Used to determine distance on a map.

What is the map scale?

200

On a map, this color usually stands for water.

What is blue?

300

The symbol on every map that shows directions.

What is the compass rose?

300

Another name for the Prime Meridian.

What is 0 degrees longitude?

300

The weather of a place over a long period of time.

What is climate?

300

Earth is divided into two half spheres called.

What is a hemisphere?

300

A model of the Earth.

What is a globe?

400

The equator cuts the globe into these two hemispheres.

What are northern and southern hemispheres?

400

Parallels is another name for these lines.

What are lines of latitude?

400

Another term for a map's key.

What is the legend?

400

Half of the earth south of the equator.

What is the southern hemisphere?

400
This is what geographers use to study regions.

What are maps?

500

The imaginary line that cuts the globe into the eastern and western hemispheres.

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

Lines used to measure east and west on a map.

What are latitude lines?

500

The lines on a map represent these.

What are degrees?

500

Where a place is located.

What is location?

500

This shows all or part of Earth on a flat surface?

What is a map?

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