Map Features
What are drawings of pictures that show a specific place, area, or geographic feature on Earth.
What lines run from East to West?
Latitude
Half of a sphere
What is a hemisphere?
A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
What is a time zone?
Physical Maps
The table/chart that tells you what parts of a map mean is called the _____.
What is a map key/legend?
What lines run from North to South?
Longitude
A drawing of a place on Earth.
What is a map?
The continental United States is broke into four time zones. What are they?
Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific
The closer you are to the equator, the _____ it is.
What is hotter?
What is a measuring tool that shoes how distances on a map relate to distance on the ground?
Scale
What line divides the Earth into hemispheres?
Equator
Lines of longitude that run from the north pole to the south pole.
What are meridians?
The amount of time zones found in the world.
What is 24?
Definition: An educated guess; Using your own knowledge to figure out an answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis/inference?
The symbol that shows the cardinal directions: _____, _____, _____, and _____ is called a compass rose.
North, South, East, and West
There are ____ hemispheres.
What is four?
Lines of latitude that run from east to west.
What are parallels?
There are ____ minutes in between each time zone.
What is 60?
True or false: Ms. Lawrence went to a HBCU (Historically Black College/University).
What is true?
Northeast, southeast, southwest, and southeast are all __________ directions.
What is intermediate?
What is the invisible line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole?
Prime Meridian
This kind of maps feature the Earth's surfaces. Things such as mountains, plains, bodies of water, elevation, and vegetation are highlighted.
What is a physical map?
The time zone that you live in.
What is Eastern Standard Time?
True or false: Ms. Lawrence has more than 3 tattoos.
What is true?