Map Symbols
Latitude/Longitude
Map Essentials
Vocabulary
Themes of Geography
100
Small dot
What is the symbol for a city on a map?
100
Name given to imaginary lines
What are latitude lines?
100
Compass Rose
What is a directional indicator showing north, south, east, west?
100
Timeline
What is it that allows us to see the span of time between events in order?
100
Location
What is the position on the Earth's surface?
200
Small Star
What is the symbol for a state capital?
200
Parallel lines
What is another name for latitude lines?
200
Scale
What is the tool used to represent the distances between points on a map?
200
BC
What is Before Christ
200
Place
What has physical and human characteristics
300
Star with a circle around it.
What is the symbol for a National Capital?
300
Equator
What is the major latitude line?
300
Legend
What explains what the symbols on the map represent?
300
B.C.E.
What is Before Common Era
300
Human/Environmental Interactions
What is Shaping the landscape?
400
Row of triangles
What is the symbol for mountains on a map?
400
Run up and down from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What are longitude lines?
400
Locator Map
What is a map that shows where in the world the area on the map is located?
400
AD
What is After David
400
Movement
What is Humans interacting on the Earth?
500
Wavey black line
What is the symbol for rivers?
500
Prime Meridian
What is the most important longitude line?
500
C.E.
What is Common Era?
500
Regions
What is how physical and human places form and change?
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