Map Features
This map feature tells you which direction is North.
What is a compass?
This type of map shows countries, states and cities.
What is a political map?
This is the continent where we live.
What is North America?
The Equator divides the Earth into these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
These lines run east to west (horizontal) like a ladder.
What is latitude?
This map feature explains what the symbols on a map mean.
What is a map key?
This type of map shows mountains, rivers, forests and oceans.
What is a physical map?
There are this many continents on Earth.
The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into these 2 hemispheres.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
These lines run north to south (like a flag pole).
What is longitude?
This map feature tells you the name of the map.
What is the title?
If you wanted to find the state of South Carolina, which type of map would you use?
What is a political map?
There are this many oceans on Earth.
What is 5?
How many hemispheres are there on Earth?
What are 4?
Which imaginary line is found at 0 degrees latitude?
What is the Equator?
This map feature helps you figure out the real distance between two places.
What is a map scale?
If you wanted to find the Appalachian Mountains, which type of map would you use?
What is a physical map?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Name one hemisphere that starts with the letter N.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Which imaginary line is found at 0 degrees longitude?
What is the Prime Meridian?
I have a compass, a key, a title and a scale. What am I?
What is a map?
How are political and physical maps different?
Political maps show places made by people (countries, states, cities) and physical maps show natural features (mountains, oceans, rivers, forests)
This continent is covered in ice and has no permanent population.
What is Antarctica?
Name the four hemispheres.
What are the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemispheres?
Why do people use latitude and longitude?
To find the exact location of a place on Earth.