An imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Zero degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
The letters NE, NW, SE, and SW stand for these directions.
What are intermediate directions?
100
A huge body of ice that moves slowly over land.
What is a glacier?
100
Another name for a mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
100
A group of connected mountains or steep, high land areas.
What is a mountain range?
200
The box on a map that explains the symbols. It may include a locator map.
What is a Map Key?
200
This is used to indicate North.
What is the compass rose?
200
An area of land surrounded by water.
What is an island?
200
This kind of map uses color to show different countries or states.
What is a political map?
200
This is a piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
Zero degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
300
The small map on a larger map.
What is the inset map?
300
A mountain that builds up around an openig in Earth's surface. Under the opening is hot, melted rock.
What is a volcano?
300
This type of projection shows the correct sizes and shapes of land. Oceans are separated.
What is an Interrupted Projection?
300
A large, level area of high land.
What is a plateau?
400
The feature on a map that helps us measuer distance from one place to another.
What is the scale?
400
These tell what the map depicts. They are located in the map key.
What is the symbols?
400
Land that borders on the sea or ocean.
What is the coast?
400
This projection shows the correct sizes and shapes of most landmasses. It gives a fairly accurate view of the sizes of oceans and of distances across land.
What is a Robinson Projection?
400
A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
500
The letters N, S, E, and W stand for these directions.
What is cardinal directions?
500
Dark lines separating two places.
What are boundaries?
500
An area formed by soil washed downstream by a river.
What is a delta?
500
This projection also gives an accurate view of land areas near the equator. It distors the size and shape of land near the poles.