Map & Globes
Parts of a Map
Me On the Map
Latitude and Longitude
Other Map Stuff
100
A picture of a place.
What is a map?
100
Tells us the place that the map shows.
What is the title?
100

Raleigh

What is my town?

100
These are horizontal lines (from left to right) that are used for measuring and locating places on a globe or map.
What are lines of latitude?
100
North, South, East, West
What are the cardinal or main directions?
200

A 3d model of the Earth.

What is a globe?

200
Helps us to find directions on a map.
What is the compass rose?
200

Wake County North Carolina

What is my county and my state?

200
These are vertical lines (from top to bottom) that are used to measure and locate places on the Earth.
What are lines of longitude?
200
Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest
What are the intermediate directions?
300
The shape of the globe.
What is a sphere?
300
Helps us measure distances on a map.
What is the scale?
300
The United States and North America
What is my country and my continent?
300
The line of latitude that divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
300

The relationship between an actual distance on the earth and the same distance shown on a map.

What is a scale?

400
A hemisphere
What is half of the globe?
400
Pictures that stand for places or things on a map.
What are symbols?
400
Western and Northern
What are my hemispheres?
400
Using the lines of latitude and longitude like a grid we can find which type of location?

What is absolute location?

400

Another name for a map key.

What is a legend?

500

This type of map shows the earth's features or landforms.

What is a physical map?

500
The place where the symbols on a map are explained.
What is the map key or legend?
500
Earth and the Milky Way
What are my planet and my galaxy?
500
This line of longitude divides the globe into the Eastern and Western Hemishperes.
What is the Prime Meridian?
500
Places can be located on one of these by pairing a letter with a number.
What is a map grid?
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