Vocabulary 1
The four main directions of a compass: north, east, south and west.
What is cardinal directions?
What is latitude?
A figure found somehwhere on the edge of a map showing the four cardinal directions and the intermediate directions.
What is a compass rose?
The starting point for lines of longitude is called the _________________________.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Tells you what each symbol on the map represents.
What is a legend?
An imaginary line of latitude dividing the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere.
What is the Equator?
The earth is divided into a ___________ of imaginary horizontal and vertical lines.
What is a grid?
West of the Prime Meridian is the _______________ hemisphere.
What is the western hemisphere?
A guide that shows the relationship between distance on the map and distance in real life.
What is a scale?
The direction in between the cardinal directions: northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest.
What is intermediate directions?
______________ lines are horizontal and run parallel to the Equator.
East of the Prime Meridian is known as the ___________________ hemisphere.
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
What is the Prime Meridian?
** Daily Double**
Pictures or icons that represent different features on a map.
What is symbols?
What is the northern hemisphere?
The United States is located in the _______________________ hemisphere and ______________ hemisphere.
Divides the map using latitude and longitude lines that is used to help you locate places easily.
What is a coordinate grid?
Imaginary lines running in a north-south direction across earth measuring how many degrees east or west a location is.
What is longitude?
Everything south of the equator makes up the _____________ hemisphere.
What is the southern?
Latitude and Longitude are broken into ____________, _______________, and ________________.
What is degrees, minutes and seconds?