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Map Parts
Reading a Map or Globe
Battleship
Directions
We Should Know
100
Map feature that tells what all of the symbols mean
What is a legend or key?
100
A pointer on a map that show the four major directions
What is a compass rose?
100
Imaginary lines that go East and West around the Earth
What is Latitude?
100
Intermediate direction on a compass that is midway between north and east
What is Northeast?
100
A small copy of Earth with continents and oceans labeled
What is a globe?
200
A line or natural feature that separates one place from another
What is a border?
200
A map that show landforms and bodies of water
What is a physical map?
200
Also called parallels
What is Latitude?
200
The intermediate directions on a compass that is midway between south and west
What is Southwest?
200
Tells or describes what the map is about
What is a title?
300
An alphabetical listing of places
What is an index?
300
A small map that shows where the main map is located within a larger area
What is a locator or inset map?
300
Imaginary circles that go north and south around Earth and all meet at the North and South Poles
What is Longitude?
300
The intermediate direction on a compass that is halfway between south and east
What is Southeast?
300
An imaginary line halfway between the North and South Poles that divides the Earth into two equal parts
What is the Equator?
400
A ratio relating the distance between two points on a map to the actual distance between the two places represented by those points
What is a scale?
400
A map that shows the locations of cities, states, and countries
What is a political map?
400
The unit of measure in the system used to describe exact locations on Earth
What is a degree?
400
The intermediate direction on a compass that is halfway between north and west
What is Northwest?
400
A large land mass; there are 7 on Earth.
What is a continent?
500
A system of rows of imaginary squares on a map
What is a grid?
500
One of the four directions that are halfway between the cardinal directions
What are intermediate directions?
500
A system of rows of imaginary squares on a map
What is a grid?
500
The four major directions
What are the cardinal directions?
500
An imaginary line that goes from the North Pole to the South Pole through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?