Key Terms 1
Key Terms 2
Identify the Location
Types of Maps
CHALLENGE
100
Imaginary Line of Longitude located at zero degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
Imaginary lines that run horizontally on a map.
What are lines of Latitude?
100
Identify the continent shown in green.
What is North America?
100
The three main types of maps.
What are Physical Maps, Political Maps, and Thematic Maps?
100
Resource that has a collection of different maps of different locations around the world.
What is an Atlas?
200
Directions on a Compass Rose that show North, South, East and West.
What are Cardinal Directions?
200
Imaginary Lines that run vertically on a map.
What are lines of Longitude?
200
Identify the continent shown in green.
What is Australia?
200
This is a _____________ map of Japan.
What is Physical?
200
(0,0) The Continent that is located that the intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian.
What is Africa?
300
The Equator divides the Earth in to what two hemispheres?
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
300
Latitude lines are also known as _______.
What are Parallels?
300
Identify the continent shown in green.
What is Europe?
300
Type of map that shows the locations of countries, states, provinces, territories, cities and towns.
What is a Political Map?
300
Continents located in the Western Hemisphere.
What are North America, South America, and Antarctica?
400
The feature on a map that provides symbols and meaning of different symbols on the map.
What is the Key or Legend?
400
Longitude Lines are also known as ______.
What are Meridians?
400
Identify the ocean located East of North America.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
Type of Thematic Map that shows the weather conditions over an extended period of time. Also includes the different zones of these weather conditions.
What is a Climate Map?
400
This continent has land in all hemispheres
What is Africa?
500
This feature on a map shows how much space on the map represents the real distance.
What is a Scale?
500
Line of Latitude locates at zero degrees.
What is the Equator?
500
Identify the ocean located west of North America.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
List 3 examples of a Thematic Map.
Climate Map, Population Map, Environment Map, Road Map, Region Map, Population Map, Economics Map (and many more!)
500
Name a continent that is entirely located in the southern hemisphere.
Antarctica, South America, or Australia