Parts of a Map
Maps that show cities, capitals, and boundaries.
What are political maps?
A description of a place to other places
What is a relative location?
A three dimensional model of Earth.
What is a globe?
The major line of latitude where 0 degrees latitude is.
What is the equator?
The exact place something is located on earth.
What is absolute location?
What is a Map?
The main line of longitude where 0 degrees longitude is.
What is the Prime Meridian?
THIS would let you know how high or low an area is, possibly through different colors.
What is elevation?
Earth is divided into halves, and there are four of these.
What are hemispheres?
These are your intermediate directions.
What are Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest?
Latitude Lines are numbered this way splitting up the earth in these directions.
What is North and South?
A person that makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
We live in these two hemispheres.
What are the Northern and Western Hemispheres?
These are your four cardinal directions.
What is North, East, South, West?
Longitude Lines are numbered this way splitting up the earth in these directions.
What is East and West?
The region we live in the United States.
What is the Southwest Region?
Name the four hemispheres.
What are the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Hemispheres?
The Definition of Distorted.
What is when something looks different from its real size and shape?
True or false: We live above the equator.
What is TRUE, we live above the equator?