Map Features
Latitude
Types of Maps
Longitude
Miscellaneous
100
What you look at when you want to find a direction.
What is a Compass Rose?
100
Latitude lines run in this direction.
What is East to West?
100
This map shows temperature, rainfall, or snowfall in a season.
What is a weather map?
100
Longitude lines run in this direction.
What is North to South?
100
The direction opposite of North.
What is South?
200
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
200
The main line of Latitude that splits the Earth in half.
What is the Equator?
200
This type of map shows how many people live in a certain area.
What is a population map?
200
The main line of Longitude that splits the Earth in half.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
The hemisphere that the United States is located in.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
300
Pictures that tell you where things are on a map.
What are symbols?
300
The Equator is _______ degrees.
What is 0 degrees?
300
These colorful maps show countries, states, major cities, and they usually include significant boundaries and bodies of water.
What is a political map?
300
The Prime Meridian is _______ degrees.
What is 0 degrees?
300
The word hemisphere means...
What is half of a globe?
400
North, South, East, and West are also called...
What are cardinal directions?
400
Lines of Latitude split the earth into these two parts.
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
400
A map that shows major landforms, such as mountains, lakes, and rivers.
What is a physical features map?
400
Lines of Longitude split the earth into these two parts.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
400
Name all five oceans.
What are: Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean Southern Ocean
500
Another name for a map key
What is a legend?
500
Challenge: Lines of Latitude are also called this.
What are parallels?
500
Another name for a weather map
What is a climate map?
500
Challenge: Lines of Longitude are also called this.
What are Meridians?
500
Name all seven continents.
What are: North America South America Afria Asia Europe Australia Antarctica
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