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This imaginary line corsses our planet in the middle. Above it is the Northern Hemisphere. Below is it the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the equator?
100
These are the basic directions - North, South, East, West
What are cardinal directions?
100
This is a diagram that is printed on a map or chart to show the direction of north.
What is a compass rose?
100
Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, Southeast
What are intermediate directions?
100
This tells you what the symbols stand for. It is often found in the corner of the map.
What is the map key?
200
This is a series of lines that we use to locate a place on a map.
What is a grid system?
200
A small map or picture of a globe that shows where an area on the main map is found in a state, on a continent, or in the world.
What is a locator?
200
Half of a sphere?
What is a hemisphere?
200
An imaginary longitudinal line that divides the Earth's sphere into halves of east and west.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
A smaller map within a larger map.
What is an inset map?
300
These lines run horizontally around a globe.
What are lines of latitude?
300
These lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are lines of longitude?
300
This is another name for lines of longitude.
What is meridians?
300
This is another name for lines of latitude.
What is parallel?
300
This ratio compares distance on a map to distance on Earth's surface.
What is a map scale?
400
The hemisphere where North America is located.
What is the Northern or Western Hemisphere?
400
The hemisphere where Asia is located.
What is Eastern or Northern Hemisphere?
400
The hemisphere that Antartica is located in.
What is Southern Hemisphere?
400
This is a flat representation of a place.
What is a map?
400
This is a 3-D representation of our world.
What is a globe?
500
These lines measure how far from the equator a place is.
What are lines of latitude?
500
This line is found at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
This invisible line is found at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
500
The number of continents.
What is seven?
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The number of oceans.
What is four?
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