Map Tools
A 3D model of the Earth
What is a globe?
Horizontal lines that run East to West around the earth
What are lines of latitude?
A horizontal line that runs around the middle of the world
What is an equator?
A longitude line that divides the world into halves
What is the Prime Meridian?
Measures the Earth's rotation in degrees
What are longitude lines?
A model of places around the world
What is a map?
Lines on on maps that go from the North pole to the South Pole
What are lines of longitude?
Half a sphere
What is a hemisphere?
The two halves of the world created by the Prime Meridian
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to fully rotate around its axis
What is 24 hours?
Tells directions on a map
What is a compass rose?
Two sets of lines that cross each other to make small squares
What is a grid?
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
The four main points on a compass
What are cardinal directions?
Shows what time it is in a particular location
What is a time zone?
Tells what colors and figures mean on a map
What is a legend/key?
Th exact spot where something is on Earth
What is an absolute location?
Two important lines of latitude that are north of the equator
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle?
The points between the cardinal directions
What are intermediate directions?
The amount of time zones in the United States
What is 6?
Shows distance on a map
What is a scale?
Uses letters and numbers to label grid lines
What is a coordinate grid system?
Two important lines of latitude that are to the south of the equator
What is the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle?
Refers to the poles of the Earth
What is North and South?
An imaginary line drawn on a map to show the boundary between one day and another
What is the International Date Line?