Map Features
This shows the four cardinal directions.
What is the compass rose?
What is a map?
How far something is from something else.
What is distance?
These lines run north and south and measure distance east and west of the Prime Meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
There are 8 of these on a compass rose.
What are directions?
This map feature explains what the symbols on the map mean.
What is the map key?
This type of map shows geographical features such as rivers, mountains, and valleys.
What is a physical map?
The name given to the study of Earth, including the climate, landforms, bodies of water, and natural resources of a specific place?
What is Geography?
These lines run east and west
What are lines of latitude?
These set of numbers tell the exact latitude and longitude of a place.
What are coordinates?
This map feature tells distance on a map and distance in real life.
What is the map scale?
This type of map shows state and country boundaries, and state and country capitals.
What is a political map?
A drawing or picture of a specific place on Earth's surface that shows different features.
What is a map?
This line evenly divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
Land surrounded by water on all 4 sides
What is an island?
Every map should have this feature to tell what the map is about and what it is showing.
What is a map title?
The type of map would be useful when looking at weather over a long period of time
What is a climate map?
Where a person or object is facing or moving toward.
What is direction?
This invisible line divides the earth into the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator ?
Where are the coldest latitude section on earth
What are the North and South Poles?
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What is the Artic or Antarctic circle?
The latitude line or section where the United states (North America is located)
What is North middle latitude?
This spherical type of map shows the whole earth in correct proportions.
(Hint: It can also spin)
What is a globe?
The small line after 24. 300 24'
What is minutes?
The equator runs through this continent
What is Africa?
Temperature close to this important line of the globe is hot year-round.
What is the equator?