Latitude and Longitude
What are the lines called that provide coordinates?
Longitude and latitude
How many parts of a map are there? List them!
Title, border, grid, key, compass, and scale.
How many major oceans are there?
5-the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. However, most countries recognize the Southern (Antarctic) as the fifth ocean.
I am driving towards Canada, what way am I going
North
What is the line that cuts the world in half using a latitude line?
Equator
Draw a compass rose with the cardinal and ordinal directions on it
N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
7, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Antarctica
I flew from Seattle to New York, what direction am I going?
East
What is the line called that goes up and down between the North and South Pole?
Prime Meridan
What does it mean to be "off the grid?" How does the grid help locate a place?
Without coordinates, you are lost. Grid determines coordinates and helps pinpoint the absolute location.
What continent has the most islands?
Asia
I flew from Seattle to San Diego, to Miami, and then to D.C.,
Southwest, southwest, east
What are the coordinates of the equator and the prime meridian?
0 degrees
How can you make an ACCURATE map of the world fit in your pocket? Why?
Clue, I am not asking if you can fold it up!
Scale!
What continent has the highest mountain peak in it?
Asia, Mt. Everest which has sides in Tibet and Nepal.
What is the capital of Washington? What is the capital of the United States?
Olympia and Washington D. C.
Where is the official spot of the Prime Meridian?
Greenwich, England
How many major types of maps are there?
5
What is the biggest and deepest ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world's ocean basins. Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world's ocean basins.
Seattle is in what part of Washington state?
The PNW or NW.