A model of the planet earth
What is the Globe
The largest areas of land on earth
what is a continent
A large body of water of salt water on earth surface
What is the ocean
A detailed drawing of an area, with shadow features such as towns, roads, rivers and mountains
What is a MAP
Map Key, Scale, title, symbols, compass rose
What are the 5 things Maps have
A picture sent to Earth taken from a spacecraft
What is a satellite image
A symbol showing the directions on a map
What is a compass rose
The point on Earth is as far North as you can go.
What is the North pole.
4 cardinal directions
What is north, east, south, west
What is a map key
Shows the location of a place in a country of the world
What is a locator map
The point on Earth that is as far South as you can go.
What is the South pole.
Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest
What are the 4 intermediate directions
An imaginary line going around the Earth and running through the North and South poles. Divides the earth into Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the prime meridian
Half of the Earth or half of a sphere
What is a hemishphere
Northern, Western, Eastern, Southern
What are the 4 hemispheres
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth into the North and southern hermisphers
What is the Equator.
The directions in between the cardinal directions
What are the intermediate directions
Imaginary lines that run North and South on a map and are measured in degrees
What is longitude
Imaginary lines that run east and west on a map and are measured in degrees
What is latitude.
The 4 main directions, N, E,S,W
What are the cardinal directions
North America, Asia, Africa, Euorpe, Australia, South America, Antartica
What are the 7 continents
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Artic, Southern
What are the 5 major oceans
Latitude of the equator
What is 0 degrees
What is the longitude of the prime meridian.