Vocabulary
Longitude and Latitude
Pics & Symbols
Maps
Absolute and Relative Location
100
The precise point where a place is located on Earth.
What is absolute location?
100
Measured from the equator and runs east to west.
What is Latitude?
100
What is this called? 
What is a map scale?
100
Something that describes symbols on a map.
What is key or a legend?
100
A way to find things using landmarks.
What is relative location?
200
Where a place is located in relation to another place.
What is relative location?
200
Measured from the prime meridian and runs north to south.
What is Longitude?
200
What is this image called?
What is a compass rose?
200
Something that indicates directions on a map.
What is a compass rose?
200
Relative or absolute location: South of the zoo
Relative Location
300
a half of the earth
usually as divided into halves by the Equator or meridian
What is a hemisphere?
300
A reference linefor measuring other meridians and runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
Which continent is west of Europe?
What is North America?
300
Name the 2 hemispheres where North America is located
What are the northern and western hemispheres?
300
A type of location that uses coordinates.
What is an absolute location?
400
North, South, East, West.
What are cardinal directions?
400
What hemisphere is South of the equator?
What is Southern Hemisphere?
400
What continent is south of Australia?
What is Antarctica?
400
Name the 5 oceans.
Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Southern Ocean
400
Relative or absolute location: 50 degrees N 120 degrees W
Absolute Location
500
Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest.
What are intermediate directions?
500
A type of location that uses longitude and latitude.
What is Absolute Location?
500
What continent is both a continent AND a country? .
What is Australia?
500
Name the 7 continents.
North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
500
Explain how you get to school using relative location.
We will grade your response.