Maps and globes
Sphere
Name the difference between a map and a globe.
What is aglobe is a spherical (ball-shaped) model of the Earth and a map is a flat drawing of an area, which can show a larger or smaller area than a globe.
Name the ocean that completely surrounds Antarctica?
What is the Southern Ocean
Name the country that is south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
Name the four ordinal or intermediate directions on a compass rose.
Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast
Name the line divides the Earth into Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
What is The Equator
Name the instrument or drawing that shows the four cardinal points..
What is Compass Rose
The smallest ocean and it is located around the North Pole?
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Name the 6 continents that begin with the letter A.
North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Asia, and Antarctica.
A person who studies maps is called?
A cartographer
Name the four cardinal directions.
What is North, South, East, West
Name the city that the Prime Meridian runs through.
What is Greenwich, England?
Name the seven continents
What are North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia (Oceania) and Antarctica.
Name country is north of the United States.
What is Canada?
Name the part on a map that helps to figure how far between distances.
What is a map scale?
Name the line goes vertically from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the Prime Meridian
Name the purpose of why maps have symbols and keys.
What is to help us understand what different things represent on the map?
Name all four (or 5) oceans.
What is Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific. Southern is the 5th ocean.
The longest ocean in the world is . . .
What is the Pacific Ocean
Name the part on a map that tells you what it is about.
What is the title?
Name the part of the map tells you what each symbol or color means?
What is The key
To go from your house to the library, you would use a . . .
What is a street map?
Name the region that is a narrow strip of land that connects North America and South America.
What is Central America?
Name the country that has a colder climate. Why?
A. Central America
B. Greenland
C. Mexico
What is B. Greenland because it is furthest from the equator?
Name the continent Monument, Colorado is in.
What is North America?