Basic Stuff
Directions
Bonus
measurement
miscellaneous
100
What are the Cardinal Directions?
North, South, East, and West
100
What are the intermediate directions?
Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast
100
What is a cartographer?
A person who creates maps.
100
absolute location
What is a description of a place using an address or coordinates
100
degrees
What is the unit used to measure latitude and longitude?
200
What is a compass rose?
Tells you which way to go on a map.
200
What is in the southeast corner of our classroom?
The t.v.
200
What is a grid system?
A system that helps you locate places on a map using coordinates.
200
equator
What is an imaginary line that runs around the Earth, halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole,0* latitude?
200
relative location
What is a description of a location using geographic areas that are near it?
300
What is a map?
A drawing or chart of all or part of the earth's surface.
300
What is on the north wall of our classroom?
The clock.
300
What does the equator divide the earth into?
Northern and Southern hemsipheres.
300
axis
What is an imaginary line that passes through the center of the Earth between the North and South Poles on which Earth rotates?
300
prime meridian
What is an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole at 0* longitude?
400
What is a symbol?
Something used on a map (usually a drawing) to stand for something else
400
Which direction would you have to travel to get to the Atlantic Ocean from Escanaba?
East
400
What does the Prime Meridian divide the earth into?
Eastern and Western hemispheres
400
coordinates
What is the latitude and longitude address of a place on a map? This may be used to find any place in the world.
400
legend
What is a list or box that explains the symbols on a map?
500
What is scale?
Shows the relationship between distances on a map and real distances.
500
Where Escanaba is located?
The southern part of Upper Michigan.
500
What is a map legend?
Explains the specific symbols used on a map.
500
lines of latitude
What are imaginary lines on the Earth that run parallel to the equator?
500
parallel lines
What are lines that are the same distance apart; lines that never meet or touch?
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