Mapping Essentials
What is a title.
This is the continent we (Canada) live in.
What is North America?
Canada.
What is North America?
This is the word that means "half of a sphere" and can be northern, southern, western, or eastern.
What is a hemisphere?
This is the word for the study of maps.
What is cartography?
This tells us distance on a map and usually looks like this:
2 km = 1 cm
What is a map scale?
What is Asia?
Italy.
What is Europe?
Parallel lines that run west to east and describe the position of a point on the earth's surface in relation to the Equator are called what?
Lines of latitude.
These are the four cardinal directions:
What are north, east, south, west?
Mapmakers use small pictures to represent things on a map. You can also find them in a legend or key.
This continent is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the Indian Ocean in the east.
What is Africa?
Hawaii.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The southernmost line of latitude at 0 degrees south is called what?
What is the South Pole?
The Tropic of Cancer is located at 66.5 degrees in this cardinal direction.
What is north?
What is a compass rose?
This ocean is located in both Canada AND Japan.
Penguins.
These invisible lines begin at Greenwich, England at 0 degrees (Prime Meridian) and are the starting point for time zones.
What are lines of longitude?
The Tropic of Capricorn is located at 66.5 degrees latitude in this cardinal direction.
This is usually the colour of land, on a map.
What is green?
This ocean borders North America, Europe, and Asia in the northern hemisphere.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
China.
Canada is located in these TWO hemispheres?
What are north and west?
On the globe, this line of longitude is 0 degrees - the starting point for time zones in Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?