Vocabulary
a spherical, 3-D Model of the Earth
What is a globe?
The continent that we live on
What is North America?
The directions of north, east, south, and west
What are cardinal directions?
What is the equator?
The coordinates of the red star
What is 45 N, 30 W?
A section of the earth separated by the equator and prime meridian
What is a hemisphere?
The biggest ocean in the world
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The directions of northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest
What are intermediate directions?
The line that runs north to south around the middle of the Earth
What is the prime meridian?
The color of the star at 60 N, 150 E
What is yellow?
The lines that run east to west around the earth
What are lines of latitude (flatitude!)?
The continent south of Europe
What is Africa?
The tool that explains what symbols on a map mean
What is a map legend?
The two hemispheres that North America is located in
What is north west?
The coordinates of the blue star
What is 60 S, 0?
The lines that run north to south around the earth
What are lines of longitude (long!)?
The smallest continent, found in the south east hemisphere
What is Australia?
The direction that is opposite of North
What is south?
The continent that is located in the North East hemispheres.
What is Asia?
The coordinates of the orange star
What is 0, 150 W?
The point where something is located on the Earth, such as "75 N, 35 E" or "15 S, 120 W"
What are coordinates?
The ocean found at the North Pole
What is the Arctic Ocean?
The direction that is opposite of Southeast
What is northwest?
The coordinates where the prime meridian and equator meet
The name of the continent that 15 S, 60 W is on
What is South America?